RAMADA WORLDWIDE INC. v. VMN FOOTHILLS TIC, LLC et al

Filing 38

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS for 31 Report and Recommendations; Granting 27 Motion to Strike filed by RAMADA WORLDWIDE INC.; The defendants answer (D.E. 13) is stricken; The Clerk of the Court is directed to enter default against defendants VMN Foothills, TIC, LLC, DK TIC, LLC, Mayank Patel, Narinder Sanwal, Dilip Patel and Kokila Patel. Signed by Judge Katharine S. Hayden on 03/28/2017. (ek)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

RAMADA WORLDWIDE, INC.,
Civil No.: 15-cv-4078 (KSH) (CLW)
Plaintiff,
v.
ORDER
VMN FOOTHILLS, LLC, et al.
Defendants.

THIS MATTER having come before the Court upon a report and recommendation filed
by Magistrate Judge Cathy Waldor (D.E. 31), recommending that the Court grant plaintiff’s
motion made pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 (D.E. 27) to strike the answer (D.E. 13) filed by
defendants VMN Foothills, TIC, LLC, DK TIC, LLC, Mayank Patel, Narinder Sanwal, Dilip Patel
and Kokila Patel (“defendants”), 1 and to enter default against them pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P.
55(a).; and no objections having been filed; and the Court having reviewed Judge Waldor’s report
and recommendation in accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(3) and L. Civ. R. 72.1(a)(2); and for
the reasons set forth in Judge Waldor’s report and recommendation and the opinion filed herewith,
IT IS on this 28th day of March, 2017, hereby
ORDERED that Judge Waldor’s report and recommendation (D.E. 31) is accepted
in whole; and it is further
ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion (D.E. 27) is granted; and it is further
ORDERED that defendants’ answer (D.E. 13) is stricken; and it is further

1

An additional individual defendant, Virender Sanwal, pro se, is not the subject of the instant motion.

ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court is directed to enter default against defendants
VMN Foothills, TIC, LLC, DK TIC, LLC, Mayank Patel, Narinder Sanwal, Dilip Patel
and Kokila Patel.
/s/Katharine S. Hayden
Katharine S. Hayden, U.S.D.J.