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Parties Involved:
Tanweer Ahmed
Defendant
National Consolidated Couriers, Inc.
Defendant
Thomas E. Perez
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS E. PEREZ, Secretary of

Labor, United States Department of

Labor,

Plaintiff,

 v.

NATIONAL CONSOLIDATED

COURIERS, INC., a corporation, and

TANWEER AHMED, an individual

Defendants. /

No. C 15-01026 WHA

ORDER RE TEMPORARY

RESTRAINING ORDER

In this action filed by the United States Secretary of Labor, petitioning to enforce

administrative subpoenas, the Secretary has moved for an ex parte temporary restraining order

seeking the following relief:

(a) a temporary restraining order, restraining and enjoining defendants as follows:

(i) from further destruction or alteration of any evidence that may relate to the

Secretary’s investigation;

(ii) from failing and refusing to produce the documents sought by the

administrative subpoenas;

(iii) from violating the FLSA by interfering with the Secretary’s investigation

through destruction of evidence, false testimony, and intimidation of witnesses; 

(iv) from violating the FLSA by retaliating against the employees of NCCI and

their rights under the FLSA to recover of wages potentially owed them, as well as

intimidating witnesses and directing them to provide false testimony;

(v) from refusing to pay for the services of a third-party forensic specialist to

attempt to retrieve deleted and destroyed evidence;

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(vi) from refusing to allow the Secretary to secure any and all equipment that may

contain electronically stored data (including computers, cell phones, etc.); and

(vii) from failing and refusing to produce the documents sought by

the administrative subpoenas; and

 (b) an order authorizing the United States Marshal Service to enter (using reasonable

force) NCCI’s facilities in San Leandro, San Jose, and Sacramento, California, and seize

all computers, backup drives and backup electronic media at these facilities.

Plaintiff must promptly and properly serve defendants with the application, petition, and

all supporting documents TODAY. Defendants shall respond to the application for a temporary

restraining order by FIVE P.M. ON MARCH 6, 2015. A hearing is hereby set for EIGHT A.M. ON

MARCH 11, 2015.

To preserve the status quo, defendants are prohibited from destroying or altering any

evidence or intimidating any witnesses that are potentially responsive to the Secretary of Labor’s

investigation.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 5, 2015. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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