ORDER:

(1) SETTING DEADLINE FOR CERTAIN PRODUCTION;

(2) VACATING CLASS CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY DEADLINE; and

(3) VACATING DEADLINE TO FILE MOTIONS RELATED TO CLASS CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY DISPUTES

ALLISON H. GODDARD, Magistrate Judge.

The Court held a Telephonic Discovery Status Conference in this matter on January 7, 2020 regarding the parties' ongoing discovery dispute. In essence, the dispute concerns whether Defendant is entitled to conduct an additional relevancy review and withhold from Plaintiff certain documents as irrelevant notwithstanding that the parties' agreed-upon search terms hit on said documents. The Court has set a series of status conferences to monitor the parties' meet-and-conferral process and to offer guidance regarding the dispute. To that end, the Court previously instructed Defendant to produce to Plaintiff samples of those documents it has deemed non-responsive as part of its additional relevancy review. Defendant complied by identifying seven categories of documents it considers to be non-responsive and providing sample documents from each category to Plaintiff. Prior to the call, the parties met and conferred and agreed without the Court's assistance regarding the scope of production for four of those categories.

After conferring with the parties, the Court ORDERS as follows:

1. With respect to the remaining three categories in dispute (data and marketing information on unrelated products, marketing emails from third parties regarding unrelated products, and conversations unrelated to the product at issue), Defendant will produce all non-privileged documents in those categories that refer to or reflect weight management or appetite control by January 21, 2020.

2. As discussed during the conference, Defendant's production of emails responsive to Plaintiff's discovery requests is smaller than Plaintiff expected. Therefore, Defendant shall provide to Plaintiff a list of custodians whose emails have been searched for responsive documents by January 21, 2020.

3. In light of the parties' progress on class certification discovery, the Court VACATES the class discovery cutoff deadline of January 31, 2020, as well as the deadline of February 28, 2020 to file motions related to class discovery disputes, both of which were set in the Court's July 16, 2019 Scheduling Order. See ECF No. 24 ¶ 2. Plaintiff's deadline to file a motion for class certification will remain March 27, 2020.

IT IS SO ORDERED.