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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`SAN JOSE DIVISION
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`JERI CONNOR,
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`Plaintiff,
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`QUORA, INC.,
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`Case No. 18-cv-07597-BLF
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`ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
`RELIEF FROM NONDISPOSITIVE
`PRETRIAL ORDER OF MAGISTRATE
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`Defendant.
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`[Re: ECF 237]
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`Before the Court is Defendant Quora, Inc.’s motion for relief from a non-dispositive
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`pretrial order of Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins, pursuant to Local Civil Rule 72-2. See
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`Mot., ECF 237. Quora challenges Judge Cousins’s denial of its motion to compel a forensic
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`examination of Plaintiff Jeri Connor’s electronic devices she used to access Quora on the bases
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`that the decision was clearly erroneous and contrary to law. Id. 2. Quora argues that it addressed
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`all the details Judge Cousins found lacking in its proposal and that his alleged lack of reasoning
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`for the decision makes it contrary to law. Id. 3-4.
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`A magistrate judge’s non-dispositive pretrial order may be modified or set aside if it is
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`“clearly erroneous or is contrary to law.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a). “[T]he magistrate’s factual
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`determinations are reviewed for clear error, and the magistrate’s legal conclusions are reviewed to
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`determine whether they are contrary to law.” Perry v. Schwarzenegger, 268 F.R.D. 344, 348 (N.D.
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`Cal. 2010). Having reviewed the briefing and underlying order, the Court finds no clear error and
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`that Judge Cousins’s legal conclusion was not contrary to law. Judge Cousins did not find Quora’s
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`showing adequate enough to grant the motion, and he applied the correct legal standard. Quora
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`cannot come to this court for a do-over on the factual determination.
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`Case 5:18-cv-07597-BLF Document 238 Filed 05/19/21 Page 2 of 2
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`IT IS SO ORDERED.
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`Dated: May 19, 2021
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`BETH LABSON FREEMAN
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