HICKS v. BOARD OF REGENTS et al

Filing 18

ORDER granting 17 Motion to Compel and to Extend Discovery Period. Discovery shall be completed by 9/27/2012. Dispositive Motion are due on or before 11/15/2012. Ordered by Judge Clay D. Land on 07/27/2012 (ajp) ***

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
ATHENS DIVISION
JEFFREY L. HICKS,

*

Plaintiff,

*

vs.

*
CASE NO. 3:11-CV-94 (CDL)

BOARD
OF
REGENTS
OF
THE *
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA,
and UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA,
*
Defendants.

*
O R D E R

Plaintiff Jeffrey Hicks (“Hicks”), proceeding pro se, filed
this

action

University

against

System

(collectively,
pending

before

of

Defendants
Georgia

“Board”)
the

for

Court

and
race

is

Board
the

of

Regents

University

of

discrimination.

the

Board’s

of

the

Georgia

Presently

Motion

to

Compel

Discovery and Motion to Extend the Discovery Period (ECF No.
17), pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37.

For the

following reasons, the motion is granted.
DISCUSSION
The

Board

served

Hicks

with

its

first

request

for

production of documents and its first set of interrogatories on
April 10, 2012.

Def.’s Mot. to Compel Disc. & to Extend the

Disc. Period Correspondingly [hereinafter Mot. to Compel] Ex. A,
Def.’s 1st Reqs. for the Produc. of Docs., ECF No. 17-2 at 10;

Def.’s Mot. to Compel Ex. B, Def.’s 1st Interrogs., ECF No. 17-3
at 11.

After receiving no response from Hicks to either its

document request or its interrogatories, the Board attempted to
contact

Hicks

by

letter

and

by

email

to

notify

obligation to respond to its discovery requests.

him

of

his

Def.’s Mot. to

Compel Ex. C, Letter from C. McGraw to J. Hicks (May 29, 2012),
ECF No. 17-4; Def.’s Mot. to Compel Ex. D, Email from C. McGraw
to J. Hicks (June 11, 2012), ECF No. 17-5.
failed

to

provide

the

Board

with

Hicks, however, has

responses

to

its

document

request or its interrogatories.
In

light

discovery

of

Hicks’s

requests,

the

failure
Court

to

grants

respond
the

to

the

Board’s

Board’s

motion

to

compel discovery responses pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure

37.

See

Fed.

R.

Civ.

P.

37(a)(3)(B)(iii)-(iv)

(providing that a party seeking discovery may move for an order
compelling an answer or production if a party fails to answer an
interrogatory submitted under Rule 33 or fails to respond that
inspection

will

be

permitted

as

requested

under

Rule

34).

Accordingly, Hicks shall provide full and complete responses to
the Board’s first request for production of documents and first
interrogatories by August 14, 2012.

Failure to do so could

result in the dismissal of Hicks’s Complaint.
the

Board’s

motion

to

extend

the

discovery

deadline for filing dispositive motions.

2

The Court grants
period

and

the

Discovery shall be

completed by September 27, 2012, and dispositive motions shall
be filed by November 15, 2012.
CONCLUSION
Based

on

the

foregoing,

the

Board’s

Motion

to

Compel

Discovery and Motion to Extend the Discovery Period (ECF No. 17)
is granted.

IT IS SO ORDERED, this 27th day of July, 2012.
S/Clay D. Land
CLAY D. LAND
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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