Case 4:19-cv-07123-PJH Document 886-4 Filed 10/30/26 Page 1 of 3 PageID #: 34315 1 Juan O. Perla (appearance pro hac vice) Turner Smith (appearance pro hac vice) 2 David V. Holmes (appearance pro hac vice) CURTIS, MALLET-PREVOST, 3 COLT & MOSLE LLP 4 101 Park Avenue New York, New York 10178 5 Tel: (212)-696-6084 jperla@curtis.com 6 tsmith@curtis.com 7 Jerrold L. Bregman (SBN 149896) 8 BG Law LLP 21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 500 9 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Tel: (818)-827-9101 10 Fax: (818) 827-9099 jbregman@bg.law 11 12 Attorneys for Defendants NSO Group Technologies Limited 13 and Q Cyber Technologies Limited 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 O FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 OAKLAND DIVISION 17 18 Case No. 4:19-cv-07123-PJH WHATSAPP LLC and 19 META PLATFORMS, INC., [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR 20 Plaintiffs, PROTECTIVE ORDER v. 21 NSO GROUP TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 22 and Q CYBER TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Ctrm: 3 Judge: Hon. Phyllis J. Hamilton 23 Defendants. 24 25 26 27 28 Case 4:19-cv-07123-PJH Document 886-4 Filed 10/30/26 Page 2 of 3 PageID #: 34316 1 NSO Group Technologies Limited (“NSO”) and Q Cyber Technologies Limited 2 (“Q Cyber” and, collectively with NSO, “Defendants”) have brought before this Court their 3 Motion for Protective Order (the “Motion”), seeking protections against Plaintiffs WhatsApp LLC 4 and Meta Platforms, Inc.’s post-judgment discovery requests under Federal Rule of Civil 5 Procedure 69, including, but not limited to, the First Set of Interrogatories in Aid of Judgment (the 6 “Interrogatories”) and the First Set of Requests for Production of Documents in Aid of Judgment 7 (the “RFPs”) dated March 4, 2026 (the “Requests”), as well as the Deposition Notices dated July 8 23, 2026 and August 25, 2026. 9 Having considered the Motion, all supporting and opposition papers, 10 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion, is GRANTED as follows: 11 1. Only post-judgment discovery of assets directly owned by Defendants, the only 12 named judgment debtors, in this action is permitted. No discovery of assets or other information 13 of any person or entity other than Defendants is permitted. 14 2. Any post-judgment discovery will be limited to discovery of Defendants’ assets in 15 Othe United States. 16 3. Any post-judgment discovery will be limited to assets, transfers or transactions 17 valued in excess of USD $150,000. 18 4. The relevant time period for any post-judgment discovery will start from 19 December 12, 2025, to the present. 20 5. Any deposition conducted as part of post-judgment discovery will be limited in 21 the same manner as described in Paragraphs 1-4 of this Order. 22 6. All corporate depositions involving a foreign deponent will be limited to that 23 deponent’s corporate knowledge of the Defendants’ assets and shall not extend to the deponent’s 24 knowledge of personal affairs or the affairs of other non-parties absent compliance with the 25 relevant procedures under the Hague Convention for the Taking of Evidence. 26 7. No post-judgment discovery regarding the injunction is permitted. 27 -2- [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ 28 MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. 4:19-CV-07123-PJH Case 4:19-cv-07123-PJH Document 886-4 Filed 10/30/26 Page 3 of 3 PageID #: 34317 1 IT IS SO ORDERED, this ____ day of __________________ 2026. 2 3 _____________________________________ 4 HONORABLE PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON United States District Judge 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 O 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 -3- [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ 28 MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. 4:19-CV-07123-PJH