Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Tyco International Ltd.

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT LU-CENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.’S MOTION TO COMPEL PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS; AND (2) DENYING DEFENDANT LUCENT’S MOTION FOR ATTORNEY’S FEES.

ROSALYN M. CHAPMAN, United States Magistrate Judge.

The discovery dispute before the Court is fairly simple and straightforward. Defendant Lucent Technologies Inc. (“Lucent”) seeks the production of the settlement agreement plaintiffs and defendant Ciena entered into in this action, as well as the underlying negotiation and drafting documents (collectively “the Ciena agreement”), and plaintiffs oppose the production of the Ciena agreement.…