Opinion
Case No. 3:11-CV-00769
08-09-2012
JULIA L. GRIFFIN, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHTEC, LLC and L&W ENGINEERING, INC., Defendants.
ORDER:
Motion granted. Plaintiff
shall respond on or before
August 23, 2012.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge
JUDGE NIXON
MAGISTRATE JUDGE KNOWLES
DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY
Defendants, Southtec, LLC and L&W Engineering, Inc. ("L&W"), by and through its counsel of record, moves the Court to compel Plaintiff to respond to L&W's written discovery pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(a) and Local Rule 37.01. Plaintiff Julia Griffin's responses to Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories and First Set of Requests for Production of Documents are now one-and-a-half months overdue. Further, Plaintiff has failed to respond to L&W's efforts to resolve this discovery dispute. Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(a)(3) and (5), L&W hereby seeks an Order: (1) compelling Plaintiffs responses to L&W's First Set of Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents (collectively, the "Requests"); and (2) requiring Plaintiff to pay L&W's reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in making this motion.
In support of this Motion, L&W files the following:
1. Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories and First Set of Requests for Production, attached as Exhibit A.
2. Correspondence from L&W's counsel, J. Christopher Anderson, to Plaintiff's counsel dated May 29, 2012, attached as Exhibit B.
3. Correspondence from L&W's counsel, J. Christopher Anderson, to Plaintiff's counsel dated June 18, 2012, attached as Exhibit C.
4. Affidavit of J. Christopher Anderson dated July 6, 2012, attached as Exhibit D.