Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Ordered To Sit For Deposition in Zenimax Case

On December 7, 2015, Magistrate Judge Stickney issued an Order (available here) resolving Facebook’s motion for a protective order, which sought to preclude Plaintiffs from deposing Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Judge Stickney ultimately ruled that the plaintiffs could depose Zuckerberg after other depositions concluded. Judge Stickney allowed the deposition because “[g]iven Mr. Zuckerberg’s active participation in Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, he has unique knowledge, as Facebook’s Founder, Chairman, and CEO, regarding his own decision to acquire Oculus and his valuation of Oculus based on his testing of the Rift headset which ZeniMax alleges includes misappropriated ZeniMax technology.”