Moonbug Entertainment Limited v. Babybus (Fujian) Network Technology Co., Ltd

District Court, N.D. California·Decided July 6, 2023·No. 3:21-cv-06536·Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 6 7 MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT Case No. 21-cv-06536-EMC LIMITED, et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE WITNESS DISCLOSURES 9 AND CROSS DISCLOSURES AND v. DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND 10 COUNTERDESIGNATIONS FOR JULY BABYBUS (FUJIAN) NETWORK 7, 2023 11 TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, et al.,

12 Defendants.

13 14 15 The Court has reviewed Plaintiffs’ witness disclosures, Defendants’ witness cross 16 disclosures, Plaintiffs’ deposition designations, and Defendants’ deposition counter-designations, 17 as well as the parties’ objections. The Court makes the following rulings. 18 For future filings of deposition designations and counter-designations, the Court directs the 19 parties to include quotation of the actual language of the designations and cross-designations with 20 the citations. 21 For future filings of disclosures and cross-disclosures of exhibits, the Court directs the 22 parties to include a brief description of each exhibit with the exhibit number. The Court also 23 directs the parties to group common exhibits (e.g., Super JoJo videos, CoComelon works) when 24 making objections that apply to an entire group. 25 27 1 2 ______________________________________ EDWARD M. CHEN 3 United States District Judge

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 DEFENDANTS’ OBJECTIONS TO PLAINTIFFS’ WITNESS DISCLOSURES 1

2 Defendants have made objections to approximately 400 exhibits to be used on July 7, 2023. Docket No. 487. The Court OVERRULES the objections, provided that foundation and 3 authentication are established at trial. The Court RESERVES JUDGMENT on translation issues and will follow the Court’s previously discussed protocol at trial. 4

5 PLAINTIFFS’ OBJECTIONS TO DEFENDANTS’ WITNESS CROSS

7 The Court reviewed Plaintiffs’ objections and addresses them below.

8 Witnesses Trial Exhibit No. P’s Objections Court’s Rulings Naiyong Defendant’s Demonstrative 1 Not in The Court 9 Yan evidence or RESERVES Babybus explains “Demonstrative 1 was disclosed in JUDGMENT on 10 taken while playing BabyBus' "Colors" discovery. this objection, app, available for download on the Apple depending on 11 App store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ whether the colorsbabybus/id973832743.” Docket No. document was in 12 473. evidence or produces in 13 discovery.

14 Naiyong Defendant’s Demonstrative 2 Not in The Court Yan evidence or RESERVES 15 Demonstrative 2 is a montage taken from disclosed in JUDGMENT on the following publicly accessible YouTube discovery. this objection, 16 links with the specific timestamps of the depending on clips noted in parentheses below. BabyBus whether the 17 is also concurrently serving the full length YouTube videos YouTube video available for download at included within 18 the sendfile provided: have been entered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY1h into evidence. 19 wb-Nxts (1:00-1:13) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3havA 20 ZG0cjk (0:52-1:05) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtaMC 21 nC1pGIOops (1:37- 1:52) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAPK7 22 T3iNRc (3:50-4:15)

24 DEFENDANTS’ OBJECTIONS TO PLAINTIFFS’ DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS & COUTNERDESIGNATIONS 26 The Court reviewed Defendants’ objections and counterdesignations and Plaintiffs’ 27 designations and objections to the counterdesignations. The Court addresses them below. Witness Deposition D’s Objections and P’s Objections Court’s Rulings 1 es Designation Counter- Designations 2 Shaojie 42:16-43:8 FRE 106; FRCP To the extent OVERRULED (P’s He 32(2)(6) Defendants objection). 3 Q. So Ms. assert their Fang in the *cross-designating designations as Rule 32 also provides 4 BabyBus 43:8-10 affirmative that when “a party offers legal designations, in evidence only part of a 5 department A. That is correct.· FRE 106, FRE deposition, an adverse told you she However, I am not 32(a)(4) party may require the 6 needed -- further (counterdesignati offeror to introduce other certain images communicating ons are permitted parts that in fairness 7 that she with her.· I just only under the should be considered needed to do went ahead and sent rule of with the part introduced.” 8 the the request of the completeness, Fed. R. Civ. P. 32(b)(6); registration documents to her. and Defendants see also Fed. R. Evid. 9 process, cannot avoid this 106 (“If a party correct? requirement by introduces all or part of a 10 A. That's purportedly writing or recorded correct. “redesignating” statement, an adverse 11 Q. And in their counter party may require the response to designations as introduction, at that time, 12 Ms. Fang's affirmative of any other part—or any request, you designations). other writing or recorded 13 looked for and statement—that in located To the extent fairness ought to be 14 images in Defendants considered at the same Flash on your assert their time.”); Charles A. 15 local designations as Wright & Arthur R. computer, affirmative Miller, Federal Practice 16 correct? designations, and Procedure § 2148 (3d A. Well, yes. FRE 32(a)(4) ed. 2010). “This principle 17 Q. And once and FRE 106 is known as “the rule of you located because this completeness” and it 18 those images witness is not exists to avert in Flash on “unavailable.” misunderstanding or 19 your local distortion caused by computer, you introduction of only part 20 outputted of a document or them to recording.” In re Pac. 21 picture files Fertility Ctr. Litig., No. on your 18-CV-01586-JSC, 2021 22 computer, WL 2075560, at *1 (N.D. correct? Cal. May 24, 2021) 23 A. Correct. (citing United States v. Q. And then Vallejos, 742 F.3d 902, 24 you 905 (9th Cir. 2014)). For communicate instance, testimony 25 d or cannot be designated as transmitted counter-designations 26 those under FRCP 36(a)(6) and outputted FRE 106 when they 27 picture files “fail[] to correspond to computer to designated. See 1 Ms. Fang in Chaudhry v. Angell, No. legal in 173-182, 2021 WL 2 response to 4461667, at *8 (E.D. Cal. her request, Sept. 29, 2021), aff'd sub 3 correct? nom. Chaudhry v. A. That is Aragon, 68 F.4th 1161 4 correct.· (9th Cir. 2023). However, I However, Rule 106 is 5 am not . . . essentially a matter of timing, particularly 6 where the material at issue is deposition 7 testimony. If the witnesses at issue had 8 appeared live and testified as to those 9 matters designated in the deposition transcript, 10 Defendants could properly have elicited the 11 clarifying testimony (along the lines of the 12 counter-designations) on cross. This especially so 13 with respect to Plaintiffs’ calling of adverse 14 witnesses. The Court has the power to order the 15 testimony of witnesses. FRE 611. 16 In this instance, this 17 counter-designation completes the last answer 18 in the designation that was cut off, so including 19 it averts misunderstanding or 20 distortion caused by introduction of only part 21 of the deposition.

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