Facts: On May 25, 2017, Plaintiff, Justin Morgenthaler was injured when a truck rear-ended the 2016 Chevrolet Suburban in which he was a passenger. He suffered “catastrophic and permanently disabling injuries.”

As against Defendant General Motors (“GM”), Plaintiffs allege causes of action for strict products liability, negligence, breach of express and implied warranties, failure to warn/negligent failure to recall, and punitive damages based on the subject suburban containing defective parts.

TR: GRANT

Plaintiff’s request for judicial notice is granted. (Evid. Code § 452.)

Defendant moves the Court for a protective order. Defendant argues that Plaintiffs are not entitled to capture GM’s confidential computer modeling technology and objects to producing the models themselves or any documents or answers to discovery questions that reveal the contends of those models.

Code of Civil Procedure, section 2031.060 provides that “[t]he court, for good cause shown, may make any order that