Arthrex, Inc. v. Parcus Medical, LLC

Filing 30

ORDER granting 28 Joint Motion for Leave to Meet by Telephone to Prepare Case Management Report. (LMH)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
FORT MYERS DIVISION
ARTHREX INC.,,
Plaintiff,
-vs-

Case No. 2:11-cv-694-FtM-29SPC

PARCUS MEDICAL, LLC,
Defendant.
______________________________________

ORDER
This matter comes before the Court on Joint Motion for Leave to Meet by Telephone to
Prepare Case Management Report (Doc. #28) filed on March 13, 2012. The parties move the court
to allow the parties to meet telephonically to prepare the Case Management Report.
The use of telephonic hearings an conferences are encouraged by the Court where they are
feasible. Fischer v. District School Bd. Of Collier County, 2010 WL 3522215 *1 (M.D. Fla. Sept.
7, 2010). Plaintiff’s attorneys are located in Naples, Florida and Birmingham, Michigan. Defendant’s
attorneys are located in West Palm Beach, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts. The parties argue that
requiring them to travel to Florida to prepare the Case Management Report would create undue
hardship on them. A similar burden existed in Fischer where this court found that requiring a
plaintiff to travel from Arizona to Florida to prepare a case management report constituted an undue
hardship on the parties. Id. Because of this hardship, this court found a telephonic meeting feasible
because it would reduce the hardship on the involved parties. Id. Allowing the parties in this action
to meet via telephone would reduce the parties’ hardships just as in Fischer. As such, the use of a
telephonic will be granted.

Accordingly, it is now
ORDERED:
Joint Motion for Leave to Meet by Telephone to Prepare Case Management Report (Doc.
#28) is GRANTED.
DONE AND ORDERED at Fort Myers, Florida, this

Copies: All Parties of Record

-2-

20th

day of March, 2012.