Wilder v. Horihan
- Nancy Brasel
- 0:22-cv-00006
- U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
- 3
In Wilder v. Horihan, Judge Foster granted the defendants’ motion to compel discovery and extend case deadlines.
Kathryn Wilder must provide the ordered discovery and sign the medical and employment authorizations by December 21, 2022. The defendants receive the compelled discovery and additional time under the revised schedule. The court may impose sanctions if Wilder does not comply.
What happened
In Wilder v. Horihan, the defendants asked the court to require Kathryn Wilder to answer written questions, produce documents, sign medical and employment authorizations, and participate in discovery. Wilder did not respond to the motion or the discovery requests.
The court had previously found that information about Wilder’s health and taxes appeared relevant to her claims and that the requests were not improper. It therefore required Wilder to provide the requested answers, documents, and authorizations by December 21, 2022.
The court granted the motion and extended the case deadlines, including fact discovery until January 30, 2023. Judge Foster warned that the court may impose sanctions if Wilder does not comply.
The detailed version
- Wilder v. Horihan · No. 0:22-cv-00006
- Nancy Brasel
- Dec. 14, 2022
Background
The defendants—Amy Horihan and Nystrom and Associates Human Resources Director—served Kathryn Wilder with interrogatories, which are written questions, and requests for documents on October 13, 2022. Wilder objected because she believed the requests sought protected health and tax information. The court treated that objection as a request for a protective order, meaning an order limiting or blocking discovery, and denied it on October 26, 2022. The court found that Wilder’s health and tax information appeared relevant to her claims and that the requests were not overbroad, disproportionate to the needs of the case, or intended to embarrass or harass her.
Wilder later objected to that ruling and told the court not to contact her again. The defendants then sent her a proposed agreement to dismiss the case, but she did not respond. She also did not respond to the discovery requests. The defendants moved to compel discovery and to extend the case deadlines. Wilder did not file a response to that motion.
Court’s ruling
The court granted the defendants’ Motion to Compel and Extend Deadlines. It ordered Wilder to provide answers to the defendants’ interrogatories and respond to their requests for production of documents by December 21, 2022. It also ordered her to sign the defendants’ medical and employment authorizations as written, without revisions, by that date. The court stated that if Wilder did not want to dismiss the case, she had to participate in discovery.
The court also found good cause to extend the deadlines in the pretrial scheduling order. Fact discovery had to be completed by January 30, 2023; nondispositive motions relating to fact discovery had to be filed and served by February 13, 2023; dispositive motions had to be filed and served by July 28, 2023; and the case had to be ready for trial by November 27, 2023. The court stated that it may impose sanctions if Wilder failed to comply. Judge Dulce J. Foster signed the order.
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