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Parties Involved:
Quest Capital Corp.
Movant
Sprott Resource Lending Corp.
Movant
TCC Mortgage Holdings, Inc.
Movant

Document Text:

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION

FOR DISCOVERY PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1782 Page 1

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Jonathan M. Reymann (State Bar No. 206847)

(jr@dmcounsel.com) 

DENTAL & MEDICAL COUNSEL, P.C.

111 Deerwood Rd., Suite 340

San Ramon, California 94583

Telephone: (925) 999-8200

Facsimile: (925) 884-1725

Attorneys for Applicants

SPROTT RESOURCE LENDING CORP. (formerly known as

QUEST CAPITAL CORP.) and TCC MORTGAGE HOLDINGS, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

IN RE:

APPLICATION OF SPROTT RESOURCE 

LENDING CORPORATION AND TCC 

MORTGAGE HOLDINGS, INC. FOR AN 

ORDER COMPELLING PRODUCTION 

OF DOCUMENTS PURSUANT TO 28 

U.S.C. § 1782

Case No. 16-mc80058-SK

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION 

FOR DISCOVERY PURSUANT TO 28 

U.S.C. § 1782

 

Upon review of the joint ex parte application of Sprott Resource Lending Corp., formerly 

known as Quest Capital Corp. (“Sprott”), and TCC Mortgage Holdings, Inc. (“TCC”), for an 

order compelling Google, Inc. (“Google”) to produce documents pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782, 

and good cause appearing, the Court FINDS and ORDERS as follows:

1. Sprott and TCC have satisfied the requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 1782, and are 

hereby authorized to issue a subpoena to Google in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, 

pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 45, and the Court appoints Jonathan M. Reymann to issue, sign and 

serve such subpoena upon Google.

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ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION

FOR DISCOVERY PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1782 Page 2

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2. Google is directed to comply with such subpoena in accordance with, and subject 

to its rights under, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of this Court.

3. The Court finds that Gregory Rheinhard Rohland (“Rohland”) is the registered 

account holder and sole authorized user of a Gmail account with the addresses

gregrohland@gmail.com and greg.rohland@gmail.com (the “Google Account”). Rohland has 

made conflicting statements regarding whether he consents to Google delivering and divulging 

the contents of his Google Account as described herein. Rohland submitted an affidavit dated 

February 11, 2016, providing his express consent to the relief sought by this ex parte application. 

However, it appears that on February 11, 2016, prior to signing the affidavit, Rohland sent an 

email to Google stating that his consent was obtained through coercion based on the threat of a 

contempt proceeding in British Columbia. While this Court recognizes that compelled consent 

may be valid for purposes of compliance with the Stored Communications Act (see Negro v. 

Superior Court, 230 Cal. App. 4th 879, 896-899 (2014)), in order to avoid confusion and address 

concerns raised by Google, this Court orders Rohland to provide fresh consent according to the 

procedure set forth in Paragraph 4, below.

4. The Court further orders Rohland to consent in writing to Google in the following 

manner: (i) following the entry of this Order, Michael Dew, counsel for Sprott, will send an 

email to the user gregrohland@gmail.com attaching a copy of this Order; and (ii) within three (3) 

days of the transmission of this email, Rohland shall send an email message from the user’s 

Google Account to google-legal-support@google.com with this Order attached (“Consent 

Email”), and shall copy such email to Michael Dew, counsel for Sprott, at email address 

mdew@jml.ca. The Consent Email shall state that the user consents to Google’s disclosure of all 

communications dated on or before December 1, 2015 GMT/UTC associated with the Google 

Account which are in the Google Account, were recently deleted from the Google Account, or 

were preserved pursuant to the request(s) in this matter (the “Documents”). The Consent Email 

shall further state that the user consents to Google delivering the Documents to Roland Luo,

Suite 1215 - 650 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 4N7, Canada, Telephone: (604) 

800-4628. The Court finds that Rohland’s consent, once it is provided as described herein, shall 

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be sufficient under the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.), and shall render 

moot any previous statements to the contrary that Rohland may have made to Google. 

5. Within ten (10) days of service of the subpoena as provided herein, Google shall 

write or otherwise record the Documents on a separate compact disc (CD) or other fixed medium 

and mail via overnight courier to Roland Luo, Suite 1215 - 650 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, 

BC V6B 4N7, Canada, Telephone: (604) 800-4628.

6. Google’s production of the Documents, as outlined in paragraph 5, will complete 

Google’s discovery obligation in this matter.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: April 20, 2016

_______________________________

 U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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