Sanchez v. Clipper Realty, Inc.

Background

The court had entered an agreed discovery schedule on December 19, 2023. That schedule set January 31, 2024, as the deadline for Defendants to serve Plaintiff with document-production requests and interrogatories. Defendants served those requests on July 10, 2024.

Plaintiff’s counsel argued that the requests were served almost six months late, without good cause, and therefore were invalid and did not require a response. Plaintiff also asked for an extension of the deadline for Defendants to produce outstanding discovery. Defendants submitted a letter requesting a pre-motion conference concerning Plaintiff’s refusal to respond to their discovery demands. The court considered the parties’ letters and responses.

Ruling

The court granted the request for an extension of the deadline for Defendants to produce outstanding discovery. It ordered Defendants to produce the discovery on or before November 7, 2024. In light of that extension, the court ordered Plaintiff to serve responses to Defendants’ First Set of Requests for Production of Documents and First Set of Interrogatories by November 7, 2024.

The court adjourned the fact-discovery deadline to December 15, 2024, and stated that the deadlines were final absent particularly compelling circumstances. The court denied Defendants’ request for a pre-motion conference, stating that it had resolved that request in the endorsement. The clerk was directed to terminate the pending motions at Docket Numbers 131 and 132. The opinion does not address the merits of the parties’ underlying claims.