Watson v. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company

Filing 181

ORDER denying 64 Motion Request for Determination of Privilege, 65 Motion for Leave to File Document Under Seal. Signed by Magistrate Judge F. Keith Ball on 1/11/18 (RBM)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
NORTHERN DIVISION
KERRICK WATSON

PLAINTIFF

V.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:16-cv-987-CWR-FKB

ALLSTATE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY
INSURANCE COMPANY

DEFENDANT

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT PREJUDICE PLAINTIFF’S
MOTION FOR REQUEST OF DETERMINATION OF PRIVILEGE
Before the Court are Plaintiff’s Motion for Request for Determination of Privilege [64],
and Motion for Leave to File Document Under Seal [65]. Watson requests that the Court determine
whether forty-one pages, which Defendant claims were inadvertently disclosed, are privileged.
[64]. Plaintiff’s motion is little more than a page in length and unaccompanied by a memorandum
of legal authorities, as required by L.U.Civ.R. 7(b)(4). Consequently, the Court is without
sufficient information to rule on Plaintiff’s motion. Further, Plaintiff did not request a Fed. R. Civ.
P. 16(b)(3)(v) conference with the undersigned to address this issue prior to filing the instant
motion, as required by section 6(F)(4) of the Case Management Order. See [17] at 3. For these
reasons, motion [64] is denied without prejudice.
In motion [65], Plaintiff seeks leave to submit under seal the forty-one pages of documents
at issue in motion [64]. This motion is also unaccompanied by a supporting memorandum, as
required by L.U.Civ.R. 79(e)(3). For this reason, and in light of motion [64] being denied without
prejudice, motion [65] is also denied without prejudice.
SO ORDERED, this the 11th day of January, 2018.
/s/ F. Keith Ball
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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