Harris v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et al

Filing 21

ORDER granting 19 Motion to Compel. Signed by Magistrate Judge G. R. Smith on 07/09/2018. (evs)

FILED
Scott L. Poff, Clerk
United States District Court

By Ericka Sharpe at 10:44 am, Jul 09, 2018

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
SAVANNAH DIVISION
MARILYN P. HARRIS,
Plaintiff,
v.
WAL-MART STORES, INC. and/or
WAL-MART STORES EAST, LP,
Defendant.

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CV418-028

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ORDER
Defendants’ motion to compel production of plaintiff’s initial
disclosures and responses to its interrogatories and requests for
production of documents (doc. 19), which is unopposed, is GRANTED.

See S.D. Ga. L. R. 7.5 (no response means no opposition). Plaintiff shall
serve her initial disclosures and discovery responses on defendants
within 14 days of service of this Order. If she does not, defendants are
DIRECTED to so apprise the Court and a recommendation of dismissal
will be entered on inactivity and, thus, abandonment grounds. See Fed.
R. Civ. P. 41(b) (authorizing district courts to dismiss an action for
failure to obey a court order); L.R. 41.1(c) (authorizing district court to
dismiss for lack of prosecution); Link v. Wabash R.R. Co., 370 U.S. 626,

630-31 (1962) (courts have the inherent authority to dismiss claims for
lack of prosecution); Collins v. Lake Helen, L.P., 249 F. App’x 116, 120
(11th Cir. 2007) (“[D]istrict court[s] possesses the inherent power to
police [their] docket[s]” and to prune out those cases left to languish by
their litigants).
SO ORDERED, this

9th

day of July, 2018.

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