Eaton v. Montana Silversmiths

Filing 74

ORDERED: Plaintiffs Motion to Compel (Doc. 59) is DENIED as moot. The parties will perform pursuant to the agreement reached during the hearing and entered on the record in open court. Copy mailed to plaintiff. Signed by Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Cavan on 5/13/2020. (HEG) Modified on 5/13/2020: mailed to Eaton (TAG).

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA
BILLINGS DIVISION
ROBERT A. EATON,

CV 18-65-BLG-SPW-TJC

Plaintiff,
ORDER
vs.
MONTANA SILVERSMITHS,
Defendant.
Before the Court is Plaintiff Robert A. Eaton’s Amended Motion to Compel.
(Doc. 59.) Pursuant to this Court’s Order, the parties filed a joint status report
outlining meet and confer efforts, and identifying the issues remaining to be
resolved. (Docs. 66 & 72.) A hearing was then held on May 13, 2020, in the
Bighorn Courtroom, James F. Battin Federal Courthouse in Billings, Montana,
before the undersigned.
At the hearing, the parties spent approximately 45 minutes engaged in
additional meet and confer efforts and further narrowed the remaining issues in
dispute. First, the parties agreed that Defendant had supplemented disclosures on
May 1, 2020, satisfying this Court’s Order of April 7, 2020. (See Doc. 71.)
Second, Plaintiff agreed to withdraw his motion to compel with respect to Requests
for Productions (“RFP”) 6, 8, 9, 24, and 25. (See Doc. 72 at 32-33.) Last, the
parties agreed that the scope of production relating to RFPs 7, 17, and 27 would be

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limited to employees in the design and engraving department of Montana
Silversmiths, and those in the apprentice program for that department. Defendant
represented that all documents within the narrowed scope of those RFPs have
previously been provided to Plaintiff subject to the parties’ stipulated protection
agreement.
There remaining no further issues for the Court to resolve, IT IS
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel (Doc. 59) is DENIED as moot. The
parties will perform pursuant to the agreement reached during the hearing and
entered on the record in open court.
DATED this 13th day of May, 2020.
_______________________________
TIMOTHY J. CAVAN
United States Magistrate Judge