Roberts et al v. U.S. Bank, National Association

Filing 47

Judge Indira Talwani: ORDER ON REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS entered. Action on motion: Adopting Report and Recommendations re 45 ; ALLOWED 31 Motion to Compel. IT IS SO ORDERED. See ORDER for Details. (Geraldino-Karasek, Clarilde)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
JOHN ROBERTS and JOANNE REID,

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Plaintiffs,
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U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, *
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Defendants.
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Civil Action No. 13-cv-11142-IT

ORDER
July 11, 2014
TALWANI, D.J.
After reviewing the June 19, 2014 Report and Recommendation [#45] of Magistrate
Judge Bowler and Defendants’ Opposition [#46], this court hereby ACCEPTS and ADOPTS the
Report and Recommendation. For the reasons set forth in the Report and Recommendation, this
court hereby orders that:
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Plaintiffs’ Motion to Compel Discovery Responses [#31] is ALLOWED as to the first
category of documents, “documents responsive to request 14 and more complete
answers to interrogatories 13 and 14.” 1

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Defendants are ordered to “produce unredacted copies of the withheld documents in
response to document request 20 as well as in response to document requests 11
through 57 dated after December 21, 2011, and logged as ‘foreclosure sale’ or
‘foreclosure litigation’” 2 for in camera review by Magistrate Judge Bowler. Magistrate

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Report & Recommendation, 6 [#45].

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Id. at 11.

Judge Bowler “will issue a recommendation for the documents withheld in the second
and third categories after conducting in camera review.” 3
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Date: July 11, 2014

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/s/ Indira Talwani
United States District Judge

Id.
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