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observing that evasive or ambiguous answers to requests for admission will not do, and admonishing that courts should not "allow the responding party to make hair-splitting distinctions that frustrate the purpose of the [r]equest" (quoting United States v. Lorenzo, No. 89-6933, 1990 WL 83388, at *1 (E.D. Pa. June 14, 1990))
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CIVIL ACTION NO. 07-518.
March 29, 2010
ORDER
AND NOW, this _____ day of March, 2010, upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel Defendant D'Amico to Amend his Answers to Plaintiffs' Second Set of Requests for Admissions (Doc. 73) and the Response in Opposition thereto filed by Defendants D'Amico and United Cut Rate Store, Inc. (Doc. 77), and pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 36(a)(6), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND DECREED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED in part. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that:
1. Defendants responses to requests 2, 4 and 6 were sufficient. Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel an amended response to those Requests for Admissions is DENIED.
2. Defendants responses to requests 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, and 21 failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 36. Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel an amended response to those Requests for Admissions is GRANTED. Defendants shall serve amended answers to requests 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, and 21 within ten (10) days from the date of this Order.