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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

D&D LAND HOLDINGS, A California

Limited Partnership,

Civil No. 05cv1605-JM(POR)

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING

DEPOSITION LOCATION

[Doc. No. 37]

v.

NATIONAL DIRECT CAPITAL

CORPORATION, et al,

Defendants.

On May 1, 2007, the Court held a telephonic Discovery Conference. Brad Jacobs appeared

on behalf of Plaintiff. Daniel Green appeared on behalf of Defendants Axiom Capital, Todd A.

Drake, and Charles M. Cronin. On April 27, 2007, the parties filed a Joint Discovery Statement

Regarding a Dispute as to the Location of Defendants’ Depositions. The dispute relates to the

location of the depositions of (1) Defendant Axiom Capital’s Custodian of Records; (2) Defendant

Axiom Capital’s Person Most Knowledgeable (re the subject loan); (3) Defendant Charles M.

Cronin; and (4) Defendant Todd A. Drake. Plaintiff demands the depositions of the aforementioned

Defendants take place in San Diego, California. Defendants, however, assert the depositions should

take place in New York, Defendants’ residence and place of business. After reviewing the parties’

Joint Discovery Statement and having heard oral argument in the matter, the Court hereby GRANTS

Defendants’ motion for protective order regarding deposition location. 

Normally, a party’s deposition is taken in the district in which he or she resides or is

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employed or has a place of business, unless unusual circumstances justify putting a party to

inconvenience of deposition elsewhere. Grey v. Continental Marketing Assoc., 315 F.Supp. 826,

832 (N.D. Ga. 1970); Philadelphia Indem. Ins. Co. v. Federal Ins. Co., 215 F.R.D. 492, 495 (E.D.

2003). Plaintiff’s counsel failed to present unusual circumstances that would require the depositions

of Defendant Axiom Capital’s employees and Defendants Drake and Cronin to be taken San Diego,

California. Based thereon, the Court GRANTS Defendant’s motion for protective order regarding

deposition location. Accordingly, the depositions of (1) Defendant Axiom Capital’s Custodian of

Records; (2) Defendant Axiom Capital’s Person Most Knowledgeable (re the subject loan); (3)

Defendant Charles M. Cronin; and (4) Defendant Todd A. Drake shall take place in New York. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: May 4, 2007

LOUISA S PORTER

United States Magistrate Judge

cc: The Honorable Jeffrey T. Miller

All parties

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