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Parties Involved:
Alstrom Grid, Inc.
Defendant
Dominion Resources, Inc.
Plaintiff
Exponent, Inc.
Movant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.,

Plaintiff.

v.

ALSTROM GRID, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-mc-80298-JCS 

ORDER TO MEET AND CONFER AND 

FILE JOINT LETTER

Re: Dkt. No. 1

TO ALL PARTIES AND COUNSEL OF RECORD:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that lead trial counsel for Plaintiff and lead counsel for NonParty Exponent, Inc., shall meet and confer, in person, within thirty (30) days of this Order, to 

resolve the Motion to Quash Subpoena Issued to Persons Residing within the Jurisdiction of This 

Court (the "Motion").

In the event that counsel are unable to resolve the matters at issue in the Motion, lead 

counsel shall provide a detailed Joint Letter to the Court within five (5) days of their meet-andconfer session. This Joint Letter, not to exceed ten (10) pages without leave of Court, shall 

include a description of every issue in dispute and, with respect to each such issue, a detailed 

summary of each party’s final substantive position and its final proposed compromise on each 

issue. After the Court has received the Joint Letter, the Court will determine what future 

proceedings, if any, are necessary.

LAW AND MOTION HEARING PROCEDURES

Civil law and motion is heard on Friday mornings, at 9:30 a.m., Courtroom G, 15th Floor, 

United States District Court, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94102.

In the event a future discovery dispute arises, IT IS HEREBY FURTHER ORDERED 

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that before filing any discovery motion before this Court, the parties must comply with the 

following:

1. Lead trial counsel for both parties must meet and confer in person regarding the 

matter(s) at issue. This meeting shall occur after other efforts to resolve the 

dispute, such as telephone, e-mail, teleconference, or correspondence, have been 

unsuccessful. Once those efforts have proved unsuccessful, any party may demand 

a meeting of lead trial counsel to resolve a discovery matter. Such a meeting shall 

occur within ten (10) calendar days of the demand. The locations of the meetings 

shall alternate. The first meeting shall be at a location selected by counsel for 

Plaintiff(s). If there are any future disputes, the next such meeting shall be held at a 

location to be determined by counsel for Defendant(s), etc.

2. Within five (5) calendar days of the in-person meeting between lead trial counsel 

referred to above, the parties shall jointly file a detailed letter with the Court, not to 

exceed five (5) pages without leave of Court, which will include the matters that 

remain in dispute, a detailed substantive description of each side’s position on each 

such issue, and a description of each side’s proposed compromise on each such 

issue. In the absence of permission from the Court, the letter may not exceed five 

(5) pages.

3. After the Court has received the joint letter, the Court will determine what future 

proceedings, if any, are necessary.

In the event that the parties continue to be unable to resolve the matters regarding the 

timing and scope of discovery, the Court will consider what future actions are necessary. These 

actions may include the following: (1) sanctions against a party failing to cooperate in the 

discovery process and meet and confer in good faith, as required by this Order, the Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure, and the Local Rules of this Court; and/or (2) requiring the Chief Executive 

Officers of each party to attend the in-person, meet-and-confer sessions described above. The 

Court is not entering either of these matters as an Order of the Court at this time, and fully expects 

counsel to meet their obligations under this Order and under the Local Rules.

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Regardless of whether the Court reschedules a hearing date, all opposition and reply papers 

shall be timely filed according to the originally noticed hearing date, pursuant to Civil L. R. 7-3.

A party or counsel has a continuing duty to supplement the initial disclosure when required 

under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(e)(1).

All filings of documents relating to motions referred to the undersigned shall list the civil 

case number and the district court judge’s initials followed by the designation “(JCS)”.

ELECTRONIC FILING AND COURTESY COPIES

Please refer to Civil L. R. 5-4 and General Order No. 45 for the Northern District of 

California for information relating to electronic filing procedures and requirements. 

BEFORE NOON ON THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY FOLLOWING THE ELECTRONIC 

FILING, THE PARTIES ARE REQUIRED TO LODGE DIRECTLY WITH CHAMBERS ONE 

PAPER COPY OF EACH DOCUMENT, WHICH IS TO BE DESIGNATED "JCS’S 

CHAMBERS' COPY." 

The failure of counsel or a party to abide by this Order may result in sanctions pursuant to 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(f).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 10, 2015

___________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

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