Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc. et al

Filing 147

ORDER -- on or before Monday, June 5, 2017, Defendants are DIRECTED to pay Plaintiff an additional contempt fine in the amount of $2,200 and file certification of such payment the same day. Signed by Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. on 5/31/2017. (VMF)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
ORLANDO DIVISION
SHIRLEY JN JOHNSON,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No. 6:15-cv-1698-Orl-37GJK

NEW DESTINY CHRISTIAN CENTER
CHURCH, INC.; PAULA MICHELLE
MINISTRIES, INC.; PAULA MICHELLE
WHITE; and RESURRECTION LIFE
THC, INC.,
Defendants.
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ORDER
Due to their refusal to produce certain discovery as ordered, the Court previously
found Defendants in contempt and imposed a $100 daily fine as a sanction (“Daily
Fine”). (Doc. 131 (“Contempt Order”).) Following Defendants’ unsuccessful appeal of
the Contempt Order and underlying discovery orders (see Doc. 137), the Court directed
Defendant to: (1) pay Plaintiff a contempt fine in the amount of $4,600; and
(2) immediately produce the contested discovery (Doc. 138 (“May 8 Order”)). The May 8
Order also warned Defendants that the Daily Fine would continue to accumulate until
they produced such discovery. (Id. at 2.)
Defendants timely paid the fine and provided certification of payment to the
Court. (Doc. 142.) But when the Court inquired about the status of the discovery more
than two weeks later (Doc. 144), it discovered that Defendants had still not produced it
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(see Doc. 145). Indeed, Defendants did not provide the discovery to Plaintiff until May 30,
2017 (Doc. 146), and only after the Court issued another Order directing Defendants to
produce it—this time by a date certain (Doc. 144).
Obviously impervious to the financial sting of $100.00 per day, Defendants’
nonchalant noncompliance with the May 8 Order has cost them an additional $2,200
fine—the sum of the Daily Fine that accrued from the date of the May 8 Order through
May 30, 2017. Accordingly, on or before Monday, June 5, 2017, Defendants are
DIRECTED to pay Plaintiff an additional contempt fine in the amount of $2,200 and file
certification of such payment the same day.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers in Orlando, Florida, on May 31, 2017.

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