Benjamin v. Steven James Development, LLC et al

Filing 97

ORDER denying 78 Motion to Compel Discovery. So Ordered by Magistrate Judge James R. Muirhead. (jab)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Robert Benjamin DLC Services Corp. v. Riley, More & More Enterprises, LLC 176 Webster Street, LLC, et al ORDER Plaintiffs moved to compel discovery by deposition, by document request and by interrogatory (doc. no. 78). By order of Civil No. 08-cv-422-SM

November 5, 2009, I resolved the deposition issues and ordered the parties, 1) to provide a copy of the interrogatories and document requests at issue, and 2) to provide substantive arguments on those at issue. Plaintiffs provided copies of all of its document requests and interrogatories but failed to supplement with any substantive arguments as to any of them. Plaintiffs' position as stated in

the motion is simply that the responses are "completely unresponsive" (doc. no. 78, ¶ 4). argument. That is not a developed

"The district court is free to disregard arguments Higgins v. New Balance

that are not adequately developed."

Athletic Shoe, Inc., 194 F.3d 252, 260, (1st Cir. 1999). On the other hand, defendants substantially responded with

arguments to support each response.

Those arguments have not

been disputed by plaintiffs and I accept them. Plaintiffs' motion (doc. no. 78) is denied. SO ORDERED. ____________________________________ James R. Muirhead United States Magistrate Judge Date: December 1, 2009 cc: Jennifer Rebecca Estrumsa, Esq. Jay Joseph Friedrich, Esq. Jeffrey A. Zall, Esq. Christopher James Pyles, Esq.

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