Rekor Systems, Inc. v. Loughlin
- Lewis Liman
- 1:19-cv-07767
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Rekor Systems v. Loughlin, Judge Liman set discovery deadlines and withdrew the magistrate judge’s general-pretrial reference.
The parties were required to meet the new fact- and expert-discovery deadlines, and the case would no longer be referred to Magistrate Judge Fox for general pretrial matters.
What happened
In Rekor Systems, Inc. v. Loughlin, the court set deadlines for completing discovery after considering letters from the parties. Fact discovery must be completed by September 13, 2021, and expert discovery by October 15, 2021.
The court said no further extension would be granted without a showing of good cause. It also said that briefing the defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment would not qualify as good cause and that discovery would not be paused while that motion was briefed.
Judge Lewis J. Liman also withdrew the referral to Magistrate Judge Fox for general pretrial matters and directed the Clerk of Court to end that referral. The order did not decide the motion for partial summary judgment or the merits of the case.
The detailed version
- Rekor Systems, Inc. v. Loughlin · No. 1:19-cv-07767
- Lewis Liman
- June 21, 2021
Background
The court acted after considering letters filed by the parties at Dkt. Nos. 133 and 134. The order concerned the discovery schedule and the referral of general pretrial matters.
Order
The court ordered that all fact discovery be completed by September 13, 2021, and all expert discovery be completed by October 15, 2021. It stated that no further extension of the discovery schedule would be granted without a showing of good cause. The court specifically ruled that the parties’ obligation to brief the defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment would not be considered good cause for another extension. It also ruled that discovery would not be stayed, or paused, while the parties briefed that motion.
The court further withdrew the order referring general pretrial matters to Magistrate Judge Fox and directed the Clerk of Court to terminate that reference.
Disposition and Significance
This was a scheduling and pretrial-management order. It did not rule on the defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment or decide the merits of the underlying dispute.
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