Erickson v. Staples, Inc. et al

Filing 89

ORDER granting 51 Motion to Compel. Signed by Judge Donna F. Martinez on 12/17/09. (Turner, M.)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT KIMBERLIE ERICKSON, Plaintiff, v. STAPLES INC., ET AL., Defendants. : : : : : : : : :

CASE NO. 3:08CV973(AWT)

RULING ON MOTION TO COMPEL Pending before the court is the plaintiff's Motion to Compel, doc. #51. Oral argument was held on December 16, 2009.

During the hearing, plaintiff's counsel narrowed her earlier request. She now seeks to compel the production of emails sent

to or from the plaintiff, or on which the plaintiff was copied, for the period of October 1, 2006 to July 20, 2007. to Compel is granted as to that narrowed request. The defendants raise a burdensomeness objection, but that objection is unsupported by evidence. "Under well-settled law, The Motion

the party resisting production bears the responsibility of establishing undue burden." Michanczyk v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

Co., No. 3:05CV1903, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21197 at *5-6 (D. Conn. Mar. 26, 2007). The defendants have made no showing as to

the nature and extent of the actual burden they would face in responding to the plaintiff's requests. See, e.g., In re

In-Store Advertising Sec. Lit., 163 F.R.D. 452, 455 (S.D.N.Y. 1995) ("If a party resists production on the basis of claimed undue burden, it must establish the factual basis for the

assertion through competent evidence.").

In the absence of any

showing, the court cannot sustain the defendants' burdensomeness objection. The other objections advanced by the defendants are

also overruled. The plaintiff's Motion to Compel, doc. #51 is GRANTED. SO ORDERED at Hartford, Connecticut this 17th day of December, 2009. _______/s/_______________________ Donna F. Martinez United States Magistrate Judge

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