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Parties Involved:
Square, Inc.
Defendant
Robert E. White
Plaintiff

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT E. WHITE,

Plaintiff,

v.

SQUARE, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-04539-JST 

ORDER STRIKING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO DETERMINE 

JURISDICTION AND REQUEST FOR 

JUDICIAL NOTICE

Re: ECF Nos. 90, 91

Defendant Square, Inc.’s motion for fees and costs pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 41(d) has been fully briefed since December 6, 2019. ECF Nos. 83, 87, 89. On 

December 24, 2019, Plaintiff Robert E. White filed a motion “for district court to determine its 

own jurisdiction.” ECF No. 90. In that motion, White argues that the Court lacks jurisdiction to 

award fees under Rule 41(d). These arguments could and should have been raised in White’s 

opposition brief to Square’s motion. The Court therefore strikes the motion, and its accompanying 

request for judicial notice, ECF No. 91, as improper supplemental briefing. See Civ. L.R. 7-3(d) 

(providing that, except for circumstances not present here, “[o]nce a reply is filed, no additional 

memoranda, papers or letters may be filed without prior Court approval”). 

Nonetheless, if the Court concludes that Rule 41(d) allows an award of fees and costs 

under these circumstances, the Court will need to decide whether it has jurisdiction to order such 

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an award. If the Court needs supplemental briefing on that question, it will issue an order 

requiring it. Unless and until such order issues, no further briefing shall be submitted.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 27, 2019

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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