Bias v. CB&I LLC, et al

Filing 17

ORDER denying, without prejudice, 16 Motion to Compel Discovery Responses and for Attorney's Fees. Signed by Magistrate Judge Richard L. Bourgeois, Jr. on 05/19/2017. (NLT)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

SCOTT BIAS

CIVIL ACTION

VERSUS

NO. 16-623-JJB-RLB

CB&I, INC., ET AL.

CONSOLIDATED WITH:
CV 16-625-JJB-RLB
Pertains to Both Cases

ORDER
Before the Court is Defendant CB&I LLC’s (“CB&I”) Motion to Compel Discovery
Responses and for Attorney’s Fees (R. Doc. 16) filed on May 18, 2017. CB&I seeks an order
compelling Scott Bias (“Plaintiff”) to respond fully to interrogatories and requests for production
propounded on March 3, 2017. CB&I asserts that despite certain extensions, Plaintiff has not
responded to the written discovery requests, with the exception of providing executed
authorizations to conduct third-party discovery. The deadline for filing a response to the motion
has not expired. LR 7(f).
CB&I did not attach a copy of the propounded written discovery requests at issue. This
Court’s Local Rules requires a party moving to compel responses to discovery requests to “quote
verbatim each interrogatory, request for production, or request for admission to which the motion
is addressed, followed immediately by the verbatim response or objection which provided
thereto.” LR 37. Where no responses or objections have been provided, the moving party must,
at a minimum, provide the Court with a copy of the written discovery requests at issue. Without
the language of the discovery requests, the Court cannot determine whether an order requiring
responses is appropriate.

Based on the foregoing,
IT IS ORDERED that CB&I’s Motion to Compel (R. Doc. 16) is DENIED without
prejudice to refiling the motion with attached copies of the interrogatories and requests for
production at issue. If re-filed, plaintiff should anticipate an order for expedited briefing.
Signed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on May 19, 2017.

S

RICHARD L. BOURGEOIS, JR.
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE