In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Prods. Liab. Litig.
In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Prods. Liab. Litig.
MDL No. 3047 (N.D. Cal. 2024)
August 13, 2024

Kang, Peter H.,  United States Magistrate Judge

Failure to Produce
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The Court has ordered the Plaintiffs to produce ESI related to criminal and civil proceedings, child welfare interactions, and breakups with significant others. The Plaintiffs must use agreed-upon search terms and inform the Defendants of any relevant breakups by a specified date. This is to ensure a fair and thorough discovery process in the case.
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IN RE: SOCIAL MEDIA ADOLESCENT ADDICTION/PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION
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MDL No. 3047
United States District Court, N.D. California, San Francisco Division
Filed August 13, 2024
Kang, Peter H., United States Magistrate Judge

STIPULATION AND ORDER GOVERNING PLAINTIFFS’ RESPONSES TO DEFENDANTS’ FIRST SET OF REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION NOS. 32, 33, 34, AND 66

On August 8, 2024, the Court heard argument on the Parties’ Joint Letter Brief Regarding Plaintiffs’ Responses to Defendants’ Requests for Production (ECF No. 1051). The Court hereby ORDERS as follows:

Plaintiffs shall produce documents responsive to the following requests, limited to the Relevant Time Period, as defined in Defendants’ First Set of Requests for Production:

32. All DOCUMENTS RELATING TO any criminal investigation or proceeding involving YOU or YOUR biological parent, step-parent, legal guardian, or anyone with whom YOU resided, either part-time or full-time, during the Relevant Time Period, as a suspect, defendant, respondent, victim, complainant, and/or witness, INCLUDING police records, sworn statements, juvenile justice records, criminal justice records, arrest records, court proceedings, transcripts, conviction records, sentencing records, bail records, and supervision records.

33. All DOCUMENTS RELATING TO any civil family court, juvenile court, neglect, truancy, divorce, or foreclosure proceeding or investigation involving YOU or YOUR biological parent, step-parent, legal guardian, or anyone with whom YOU resided, either part-time or full-time, during the RELEVANT TIME PERIOD, INCLUDING any prior sworn testimony by YOU.

34. All DOCUMENTS RELATING TO any interaction with child protective services, child and family services, foster care, adoption, or any other similar child welfare agency or organization RELATING TO YOU or YOUR biological parent, step-parent, legal guardian, or anyone with whom YOU resided, either part-time or full-time, during the Relevant Time Period.

66. All DOCUMENTS RELATING TO any break ups that (1) YOU have experienced with a boyfriend, girlfriend, significant other, or other romantic partner, with whom you were in a relationship of six months or longer, or (2) YOU discussed with a medical or mental health provider.

In response to these Requests for Production, Plaintiffs shall produce Known Responsive Documents pursuant to Paragraph 7 of the Order Governing Production of Electronically Stored Information and Hard Copy Documents and shall run search terms, to be agreed by the Parties, across the custodial sources from which documents are being produced for the remaining Requests, including Routine Devices as defined in Discovery Management Order 8.

By Wednesday, August 14, 2024, Plaintiffs shall inform Defendants which bellwether Plaintiffs were involved in breakups resulting from relationships that meet the criteria of revised Request No. 66 set out above, so that case-specific search terms can be crafted.

IT IS SO ORDERED that the foregoing Stipulation is approved