Kishore et al v. BCCL Worldwide, Inc.

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United States District Court
Northern
 District of California
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
HARI KISHORE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
TIMES INTERNET (UK) LTD.,
Defendant.
Case No. 23-cv-03594-HSG
ORDER GRANTING REQUEST TO
APPEAR REMOTELY AT HEARING
ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR
PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF
CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT
Re: Dkt. No. 67
Plaintiffs’ counsel moves to appear remotely at the hearing on Plaintiffs’ own motion for
preliminary approval. Dkt. No. 67. The entirety of the asserted good cause for the request is that
counsel lives in New York City, and thus would have to “expend substantial time and resources
traveling to the Northern District of California” for the hearing. Id. at 2. The Court disagrees that
this constitutes good cause: if it is inherently burdensome for counsel to make in-person
appearances outside her home district on even critical motions like this preliminary approval
motion, the solution is for counsel to only accept representations within driving distance of her
home. There is no “I live far away from the court where I took on a representation” entitlement to
routine remote appearances. The Court is nonetheless willing to grant this single request to appear
remotely. The Court here makes clear that if preliminary approval is granted, Plaintiffs’ counsel,
who has a fiduciary responsibility to vigorously represent the proposed class, will be required to
attend the final fairness hearing in person absent some true and unforeseen emergency.
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United States District Court
Northern District of California
The Courtroom Deputy will email counsel the Zoom information and instructions.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated:
______________________________________
HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.
United States District Judge
3/19/2026
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