Microbilt Corporation v. Dogital Dialogue, Llc.

Full title: MICROBILT CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. DOGITAL DIALOGUE, LLC., DIALOGUE…

Court: United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division

Date published: Mar 10, 2006

Case No. 05-60038 (E.D. Mich. Mar. 10, 2006)

Opinion

Case No. 05-60038.

March 10, 2006

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY

R. WHALEN, Magistrate Judge

Before the Court is Defendant's Motion to Compel Discovery [Docket #33], which has been referred for hearing and determination pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). For the reasons and under the terms stated on the record on March 9, 2006, the motion is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART, as follows:

1. As to Defendants' Document Requests 4, 5 and 10 (Plaintiff's financial information) and 6 (Plaintiff's corporate tax returns), the motion is DENIED, provided that Defendant files with the Court a written withdrawal of the intentional interference with business claim (Count V) and of any claim for damages based on Plaintiff's lost profits.¹

1 Plaintiff's counsel represented willingness to withdraw these claims at the hearing on this motion.

2. As to Defendants' Document Request 7 (Licensing Agreements), the motion is GRANTED.

3. As to Defendants' Document Request 3 (documents relating to the six customers alleged to have been lost, including contracts between the Plaintiff and those customers), the motion is GRANTED.

4. As to Defendants Interrogatories 7-18, the motion is GRANTED.

All discovery covered by this Order shall be provided within 21 days of the date of this Order.

SO ORDERED.