Dumas v. Hurley Medical Center et al

Filing 176

ORDER Extending Responsive Pleading Deadlines as to 163 MOTION to Dismiss and MOTION for Summary Judgment as to Defendants AFSCME Council 25, Deloris Lots, Patricia Ramirez, and Victoria Thompson, 160 MOTION for Summary Judgment :( Responses due by 2/22/2013, Replies due by 3/8/2013) Signed by District Judge Robert H. Cleland. (LWag)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION

LOWANA SHANELL DUMAS,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No. 10-12661

HURLEY MEDICAL CENTER, et al.,
Defendants.
/
ORDER EXTENDING RESPONSIVE PLEADING DEADLINES TO
DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Pursuant to this court’s February 12, 2013 order, Racine Miller filed a statement
explaining that she provided all of the discovery within her possession to Plaintiff on
January 24, 2013. However, Miller did not have the deposition transcripts of Victoria
Thompson and Barbara Watson until February 11, 2013. On that date, Miller emailed
the two transcripts to Plaintiff. While Plaintiff had access to a portion of Thompson’s
deposition testimony on January 24, 2013, as it was submitted as Exhibit C to
Defendants’ summary judgment motion, [Dkt. # 163-4], Plaintiff did not have the
complete deposition testimonies of Thompson and Watson until Miller provided them on
February 11, 2013.
The court denied Plaintiff’s motion to stay the dispositive motion deadlines but
stated it would reconsider the motion depending on the content of Miller’s statement.
Based on the information learned from Miller, the court finds that an extension to the
deadline for responding to Defendants’ summary judgment motions is warranted.
Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiff is DIRECTED to file a response to Defendants’
motions for summary judgment [Dkts. # 160, 163] by February 22, 2013. Defendants
may file an optional reply by March 8, 2013.

s/Robert H. Cleland
ROBERT H. CLELAND
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated: February 14, 2013
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was mailed to counsel of record
on this date, February 14, 2013, by electronic and/or ordinary mail.
s/Lisa Wagner
Case Manager and Deputy Clerk
[phone]

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