Li v. Merck & Co., Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 NINA XIAOYAN LI, Case No. 23-cv-03347-JSW (TSH) 8 Plaintiff, DISCOVERY ORDER (PUBLIC 9 v. VERSION OF ECF NO. 162) 10 MERCK & CO., INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 89 11 Defendants. 12 13 Defendants (together, “Merck”) have filed a motion for sanctions against Plaintiff. It has 14 three parts. First, Defendants seek a permissible adverse inference instruction pursuant to the 15 Court’s inherent authority (which governs non-ESI sanctions) that Plaintiff deleted three 16 categories of paper documents: (1) pen and paper edits by…