Corley v. State Of Louisiana Through Division Of Administration, Office Of Risk Management

Filing 95

RULING denying 90 Motion for Leave to Serve Additional Discovery Requests. Signed by Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Riedlinger on 11/12/09. (LSM, )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

IDELLA CORLEY VERSUS STATE OF LOUISIANA, THROUGH DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF RISK MANAGEMENT

CIVIL ACTION NUMBER 06-882-SCR

RULING ON MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SERVE ADDITIONAL DISCOVERY REQUESTS Before the court Plaintiff's Motion to Exceed the Number of Interrogatories and Requests for Admissions. number 90. The motion is opposed.1 the proposed for additional admission interrogatories were submitted nor with the the Record document

Neither additional

requests

plaintiff's motion. numbers 10 through

Defendants refused to answer interrogatory 25 of the Plaintiff's Second Set of

Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents.

Knowing

that the defendants are opposed to answering discovery requests which exceed the number allowed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court cannot assume that these contested

interrogatories are amongst the 25 "additional interrogatories" (which would be 16 of the 25) the plaintiff seeks leave to serve on each named defendant. More importantly, because these

interrogatories are not in the record they cannot be evaluated by
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Record document number 92.

the court to determine whether there is good cause to serve them.2 At this point in the case, the court will not grant the plaintiff carte blanch to serve additional interrogatories and requests for admission without knowing what those discovery request are and to which defendant or defendants they are directed. Accordingly, the Plaintiff's Motion to Exceed the Number of Interrogatories and Requests for Admissions is denied. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 12, 2009.

STEPHEN C. RIEDLINGER UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

Nor were the Plaintiff's Second Set of Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents attached to the defendants' Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Discovery. Record document number 82. 2

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