Jemme J. Jenkins, Individually, and Administrator of the Estate of Jimmie Lee Alexander, Sr. v. Corizon Health Inc. et al

Filing 33

ORDER granting 26 Motion to Amend/Correct; granting 29 Motion to Compel; granting 30 Motion to Compel. Signed by Magistrate Judge G. R. Smith on 08/31/2018. (evs)

FILED
Scott L. Poff, Clerk
United States District Court

By Ericka Sharpe at 4:10 pm, Aug 31, 2018

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
SAVANNAH DIVISION
JEMME J. JENKINS, Individually,
and JULIANNE GLISSON,
Administrator of the Estate of
Jimmie L. Alexander, Sr.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
CORIZON HEALTH, INC., et al.,
Defendants.

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CV418-099

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ORDER
Plaintiffs seek to amend their Complaint (doc. 26) and to compel
the appearance of a corporate designee of the Chatham County Sheriff’s
Office pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 (docs. 29 & 30).

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defendants nor the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office1 have responded, 2

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Sheriffs John Wilcher and Roy Harris, as well as the Chatham County Board of
Commissioners, are named as defendants.
The Chatham County Sheriff’s
Department is not a named defendant, but plaintiff was advised by these named
defendants that a witness from the Sheriff’s Department would be both designated
and made available to testify to certain topics which their own designees could not
cover. Doc. 29 at 2.
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Notably, the parties jointly sought and received an extension of discovery deadlines
to accommodate further discovery efforts. Docs. 31 & 32. Perhaps they anticipated
resolving this discovery dispute as well in their extended Schedule. Indeed, plaintiffs
represented their belief that the County was “agreeable” to producing the requested
witness in their supplemental motion to compel. Doc. 30 at 1.

so the motions are unopposed by operation of Local Rule 7.5. S.D. Ga.
L. R. 7.5 (“Failure to respond within the applicable time period shall
indicate that there is no opposition to a motion.”).

Accordingly,

plaintiffs’ unopposed motions (docs. 26, 29 & 30) are GRANTED.
SO ORDERED, this 31st day of August, 2018.

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