Arista Records LLC v. DOES 1-4

OPINION AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’ APPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE TO TAKE IMMEDIATE DISCOVERY

JANET BOND ARTERTON, District Judge.

In these two closely related actions, Nos. 08-1280 and 08-1284, Plaintiffs seek leave of this Court to serve immediate discovery requests on, respectively, Yale University and the University of Connecticut, for the purpose of identifying several Doe Defendants alleged to have infringed Plaintiffs’ copyrights. Specifically, Plaintiffs request permission to serve a Rule 45 subpoena on each University in its capacity as Defendants’ Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) in order to…