Yuntek International, Inc. v. Xiamen JXD Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd.
- Jeffrey White
- 4:20-cv-07201
- U.S. District Court · Northern District of California
- 2
In Yuntek v. Xiamen, Judge White denied relief from a magistrate judge’s discovery order.
Yuntek International, Inc.’s request to obtain relief from the magistrate judge’s discovery order was denied.
What happened
In Yuntek International, Inc. v. Xiamen JXD Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd., Yuntek asked the district court to review Magistrate Judge Illman’s April 4, 2022 discovery order.
For a nondispositive pretrial ruling, the district court may change the order only if it is clearly erroneous or contrary to law. The opinion does not describe the specific discovery dispute.
Judge Jeffrey White denied Yuntek’s motion for relief from the Discovery Order.
The detailed version
- Yuntek International, Inc. v. Xiamen JXD Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd. · No. 4:20-cv-07201
- Jeffrey White
- Apr. 26, 2022
Background
Yuntek International, Inc. sought relief from Magistrate Judge Illman’s nondispositive pretrial discovery order dated April 4, 2022. The opinion identifies the request as a motion for relief from a magistrate judge’s order and refers to the discovery order as the “Discovery Order.”
Legal standard
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(a), a district court may modify or set aside a magistrate judge’s ruling on a nondispositive pretrial motion if the ruling is clearly erroneous or contrary to law. A ruling is clearly erroneous when, after reviewing the evidence, the court is left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake was made. A ruling is contrary to law when it applies an incorrect legal standard or fails to consider an element of the applicable standard.
Ruling
The court denied Yuntek’s motion for relief from the Discovery Order. The provided opinion text states the governing standard but does not explain in detail how the standard applied to the particular discovery dispute.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.