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Parties Involved:
ADT Security Services, Inc.
Defendant
Great Northern Insurance Company
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

GREAT NORTHERN INSURANCE

COMPANY,

Plaintiff,

 v.

ADT SECURITY SERVICES, INC.,

Defendants.

 /

MISC No. 08-80191 JSW

ORDER RE PETITION FOR

ISSUANCE OF SUBPOENA

On October 2, 2008, Petitioner, Great Northern Insurance Company as a subgrogee of

Croastion Fraternal Union (“Great Northern”) filed a petition for issuance of a Supboena Duces

Tecum compelling the Custodian of Records of Radionics Bosch to appear for a deposition on

October 16, 2008, and produced specified documents. The deposition subpoena relates to an

action pending in the Western District of Pennsylvania entitled Great Northern Insurance

Company a/s/o Croatian Fraternal Union v. ADT Security Services, Inc., No. 2:06-CV-90.

Great Northern has requested a court order issuing the subpoena. However, pursuant to

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(a)(2), a party seeking to take a deposition must obtain leave

of court under the following circumstances:

(A) if the parties have not stipulated to the deposition and:

(i) the deposition would result in more than 10 depositions

being taken under this rule or Rule 31 by the plaintiffs, or by

the defendants, or by the third party defendants;

(ii) the deponent has already been deposed in the case; or

(iii) the party seeks to take the deposition before the time

specified in Rule 26(d), unless the party certifies in the notice,

with supporting facts, that the deponent is expected to leave

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the United States and may be unavailable for examination in

this country after that time; or

(B) the deponent is confined in prison.

Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(a)(2). 

Great Northern has not indicated that any of the conditions that require a court order

granting leave to take a deposition are present in this case. Furthermore, pursuant to Federal

Rule of Civil Procedure 45(a)(3), it appears that the attorney who requested the subpoena is

authorized to issue the subpoena.

If any of the circumstances set forth in Rule 30(a)(2) are present in this case, Great

Northern should submit a supplemental request to the Court for issuance of the subpoena. At

this juncture, however, the Court denies, without prejudice, the petition as moot because the

Court concludes that Great Northern does not require an order issuing the subpoena in order

for the deposition scheduled for October 16, 2008, to go forward. 

Great Northern is FURTHER ORDERED to serve a copy of this Order on all

interested parties in this case. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 7, 2008 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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