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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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28 SPECIAL MASTER’S REPORT RE DISCOVERY MOTIONS AND RELATED MATTERS PAGE 1 OF 3

Vaughn R Walker 

Law Office of Vaughn R Walker

Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 2200

San Francisco, CA 94111

Tel: (415) 871-2888

Fax: (415) 871-2890

vrw@judgewalker.com

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE CATHODE RAY TUBE (CRT) ANTITRUST 

LITIGATION

This Order Relates To:

All Actions

 MDL No 1917

 Case No 14-cv-2058-SC

 Master Case No 3:07-cv-05944SC

SPECIAL MASTER’S REPORT 

RE DISCOVERY MOTIONS

AND RELATED MATTERS

 

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28 SPECIAL MASTER’S REPORT RE DISCOVERY MOTIONS AND RELATED MATTERS PAGE 2 OF 3

Since the court’s order on December 17, 2013 appointing the undersigned as 

special master for discovery motions, the undersigned has submitted 25 recommended orders 

and reports. These are listed in the attached Table #1. Nine motions remain pending at this 

time. See Table #2. Of these, three motions were submitted by counsel for the indirect 

purchaser class plaintiffs who have settled their claims with all defendants they named and 

have withdrawn the motions. A question unresolved at this point is whether these motions and 

one other should be deemed withdrawn or, instead, be allowed to be pursued by the remaining 

parties. The undersigned plans to address this question in the near future.

In addition, the undersigned has conducted numerous settlement mediations

with various parties and submitted at least two reports with regard to that process. ECF 3200

and 3818. Priority in these mediation efforts has been given to achievement of resolution of 

the class actions. With the exception of direct purchaser plaintiff class claims against one 

defendant, all class claims have been resolved among the parties and motions for approval of 

these settlements submitted. The eagerness of the parties in the remaining cases to pursue

settlement discussions has, not surprisingly, abated in the absence of a firm trial date since the 

court’s order on February 9, 2015. ECF 3515. 

Numerous non-discovery motions affecting the remaining actions have been 

filed and will have to be addressed prior to trial. Furthermore, the court will have to consider 

the appropriate time to remand cases that were transferred to the Northern District of 

California pursuant to 28 USC §1407. In connection with the remand cases and the pending 

non-discovery motions, the court may wish to request the parties to identify those motions that 

involve issues in which the applicable law and appellate guidance in the transferor circuits 

differs from that which obtains in the Ninth Circuit. With that information in hand, the court 

may then wish to consider whether it might be appropriate to remand those cases, or some of 

them, without ruling on those motions. For the cases that remain in the Northern District of 

California, of course, those motions and all others will have to be addressed.

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TABLE # 1

In re CRT Antitrust Litigation, MDL No 1917: Special Master Discovery Motions 7/15/15 Status

TABLE # 1, Page 1

No R&R 

Order 

Filed

ECF 

No

Motion Decision Court 

Action

Moving 

Party

Plaintiff Defendant

1 7/14/15 3914 Compel Sears and Kmart’s private 

label discovery

Granted in part Toshiba Sears

Kmart

Toshiba

2 7/9/15 3908 Compel Best Buy’s competitive 

intelligence, private label

discovery

Granted in part Toshiba Best Buy Toshiba

3 7/2/15 3899 Strike proposed expert report of 

Thomas Lys, PhD

Denied Defendants DAPs All 

4 6/12/15 3873 Compel Mitsubishi’s supplemental 

discovery (Murata, Konishi

depositions) 

Granted in part (Murata 

deposition and hearing 

re Konishi deposition)

DPPs DPPs Mitsubishi

5 6/8/15 3866 Compel ViewSonic percipient 

witness depositions

Requested briefing 

whether Chunghwa and 

LG may proceed 

Mitsubishi ViewSonic Mitsubishi

6 5/29/15 3859 Compel Mitsubishi to provide 

Murata testimony

Granted DPPs Mitsubishi Mitsubishi

7 5/28/15 3857 Request for status re motions to 

compel from IPPs, DAPs, 

Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips

6/11/15

ECF 3870

8 4/28/15 3830 Compel Mitsubishi’s supplemental

discovery 

Granted in part;

supplemental briefing

6/11/15

ECF 3870

DPPs Mitsubishi Mitsubishi

9 1/16/15 3401 Compel ViewSonic responses to 

requests for production, 

interrogatories and Rule 30(b)(6) 

deponent

Granted in part 6/11/15

ECF 3870

Mitsubishi ViewSonic Mitsubishi

10 1/2/15 3366 Compel deposition of Sharp’s 

Nobuo Harada

Denied without 

prejudice

6/11/15

ECF 3870

Panasonic Sharp Panasonic

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TABLE # 1, Page 2

No R&R 

Order 

Filed

ECF 

No

Motion Decision Court 

Action

Moving 

Party

Plaintiff Defendant

11 1/2/15 3365 Compel DAPs’ interrogatory 

responses

Granted in part Thomson DAPs Thomson

12 12/12/14 3197 Protective order barring DAPs 

from taking second Samsung Rule 

30(b)(6) deposition

Denied 6/11/15

ECF 3870

Samsung DAPs Samsung

13 12/12/14 3196 Strike Sharp errata in Rule 

30(b)(6) testimony of Sampietro

Granted 6/11/15

ECF 3870

Panasonic Sharp Panasonic

14 11/24/14 3146 Compel Toshiba witnesses Granted IPPs DAPs 

Cal AG

IPPs DAPs 

Cal AG

Toshiba

15 11/19/14 3130 Compel Samsung SDI Ahn 

deposition

Granted 6/11/15

ECF 3870

IPPs IPPs Samsung 

SDI

16 11/14/14 3103 Compel production of Sharp’s LCD 

Litigation documents

Granted 6/11/15

ECF 3870

Panasonic Sharp Panasonic

17 11/14/14 3104 Strike Samsung witness Sung’s 

deposition errata

Granted 6/11/15

ECF 3870

IPPs IPPs Samsung 

SDI

18 11/12/14 3071 Extend discovery cut-off to 

depose Mitsubishi witnesses

Granted 6/11/15

ECF 3870

DAPs DAPs Mitsubishi

19 9/15/14 Protective order against Rule 

30(b)(6) deposition notice of 

Samsung SDI

Interim order directing 

Samsung SDI to respond 

by 9/19/14

Samsung 

SDI

DAPs 

DPPs 

Cal AG

Samsung 

SDI

20 9/10/14 2828 Corrected R&R Order ECF 2743 

(Compel responses by Toshiba 

and Panasonic)

English translations to 

be used 

6/11/15

ECF 3870

Sharp Sharp Toshiba 

Panasonic

21 9/8/14 2812 Compel documents and testimony 

withheld on French statute

Granted in part re Rule 

30(b)(6) testimony

10/23/14 

ECF 2945

DAPs DAPs Thomson

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TABLE # 1, Page 3

No R&R 

Order 

Filed

ECF 

No

Motion Decision Court 

Action

Moving 

Party

Plaintiff Defendant

22 8/20/14 2747 Compel responses to 

interrogatories

Denied 8/20/14

ECF 2747

LG & Defs DAPs All

23 8/15/14 2743 Compel Panasonic and Toshiba 

interrogatory responses

Denied 8/15/14 

ECF 2743

Sharp Panasonic 

Toshiba

Panasonic 

Toshiba

24 8/15/14 2742 Compel Sharp documents re 

purchase of CRT tubes in Asia

Settled 8/15/14 

ECF 2742

Panasonic Sharp Panasonic

25 7/30/14 2734 Compel documents for JDI 

depositions (former Toshiba)

Denied 8/6/14

ECF 2734

IPPs IPPs Toshiba 

26 7/7/14 2677

-5

Protective order Granted in part 7/28/14 

ECF 2714

Best Buy Best Buy Panasonic

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TABLE # 2

In re CRT Antitrust Litigation, MDL No 1917: Special Master Discovery Motions 7/15/15 Status

No Date Filed Motion Moving 

Party

Plaintiff Defendant Status

1 1/20/15 Compel Thomson Rule 

30(b)(6) deposition

DAPs DAPs Thomson Pending

2 1/26/15 Compel DAPs to produce 

settlement agreements

Defs DAPs Defs Pending

3 5/15/15 Enforce court’s scheduling 

orders and strike 4/13/15 

late expert report

Samsung 

SDI

Cal AG Samsung 

SDI

Pending

4 10/29/14 Compel Toshiba to 

authenticate documents

DAPs DAPs Toshiba Pending

5 11/24/14 Compel Samsung SDI and 

Hitachi to authenticate 

documents

DAPs DAPS Samsung 

SDI Hitachi

Panasonic

Pending

6 9/12/14 Compel supplemental 

discovery

IPPs IPPs Panasonic 

Toshiba 

Philips

Pending order whether other parties should be 

permitted to proceed in light of Discovery Protocol.

Withdrawn by moving party.

7 9/19/14 Compel supplemental

discovery

IPPs IPPs Toshiba 

Panasonic

“

8 12/22/14 Compel Shibata deposition IPPs IPPs Toshiba “ 

9 11/18/14 Compel ViewSonic

percipient witness 

depositions

Mitsubishi ViewSonic Mitsubishi “ 

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