Mealey's ( August 29, 2019, 1:59 PM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal magistrate judge in California on Aug. 26 awarded counsel for a payment processing company $7,000 in sanctions to be paid by an attorney representing defendants in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit for failing to respond to two motions to compel discovery responses, in addition to $5,000 in sanctions already awarded against the attorney (Granite Payments LLC, et al. v. 1Point Merchant Solutions Inc., et al., No. 18-2727, E.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 144826)....