Judge Connolly Transfers Discovery Matter Against Litigation Funder Back to California
Back in September 2018, MPH Technologies Oy filed suit against Apple in the Northern District of California, the local rules of which require litigants to disclose any nonparties having a financial interest in the outcome of the case. MPH Technologies certified that “there is no such interest to report”. A recent action that Apple filed in the District of Delaware seeking to enforce a subpoena to litigation funder Omni Bridgeway raises the question of whether that certification remains accurate. Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly recently transferred that Delaware action back to California, where Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse last week referred it to District Judge Trina L. Thompson, who is presiding over the MPH Technologies case itself, to determine whether it is related.
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