Quicken Loans Inc. v. RE/MAX, LLC

Filing 21

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT PREJUDICE PLAINTIFF'S 17 Motion to Quash - Signed by Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen. (CCie)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
QUICKEN LOANS, INC.,
Plaintiff,

No. 16-13233

v.

District Judge David M. Lawson
Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen

RE/MAX, LLC,
Defendant.
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ORDER
Before the Court is Plaintiff Quicken Loan’s motion to quash a non-party
subpoena that Defendant Re/Max, LLC issued to In-House Realty, LLC (“InHouse”)[Doc. #17]. Plaintiff filed this action in the Eastern District of Michigan, but on
October 31, 2016, this Court transferred the case to the District of Colorado [Doc. #16].
This Court then closed the case.
On April 17, 2017, Plaintiff filed the present motion, seeking to quash a subpoena
to non-party In-House, which is domiciled in the Eastern District of Michigan. On May
1, 2017, Defendant filed a motion to compel In-House to respond to the subpoena.
Because this was a motion to compel a Michigan non-party to respond to a subpoena
issued in a Colorado case, and thus a proceeding ancillary to the action in the District of
Colorado, it was properly filed under a miscellaneous number, 17-mc-50617, not under
the original Eastern District of Michigan number. That case was assigned to the Hon.
Avern Cohn, and is scheduled for hearing on July 10, 2017.
This Court no longer has jurisdiction over the now-closed underlying case that was
transferred to the District of Colorado. The proper forum for resolving objections to the
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Rule 45 subpoena is a separate miscellaneous action in this Court that is ancillary to the
District of Colorado case. That miscellaneous action is now pending before Judge Cohn,
initiated by Defendant’s motion to compel compliance with its subpoena. Plaintiff’s
objections to the subpoena would be more properly heard in that proceeding.
Therefore, Plaintiff’s motion to quash subpoena [Doc. #17] is DENIED
WITHOUT PREJUDICE to Plaintiff appearing in Case No. 17-mc-50617 in opposition to
Defendant’s motion to compel In-House to respond to the subpoena.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/R. Steven Whalen
R. STEVEN WHALEN
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Dated: June 8, 2017

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify on June 8, 2017, that I electronically filed the foregoing paper with
the Clerk of the Court sending notification of such filing to all counsel registered
electronically. I hereby certify that a copy of this paper was mailed to non-registered ECF
participants.
s/Carolyn Ciesla
Case Manager to
Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen

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