Vaad Hakashrus Crown Heights, Inc. v. Braun et al

Filing 44

ORDER granting 41 Motion to Compel. Defendant Braun is directed, on pain of sanctions, to fully respond to plaintiff's document demands and interrogatories by close of business on December 9, 2016. See attached order. Ordered by Chief Mag. Judge Roanne L. Mann on 12/5/2016. (Proujansky, Josh)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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VAAD HAKASHRUS CROWN HEIGHTS, INC.,
Plaintiff,
-against-

ORDER
15-CV-5857 (FB)

YOSEF BRAUN, et al.,
Defendants.
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This case has recently been reassigned to this magistrate judge for pretrial supervision.
One of the motions now pending before this Court is plaintiff’s November 17th letter-request
for an order compelling defendant Yosef Braun to respond to document demands and
interrogatories that were served on him on August 26, 2016. See Letter Motion to Compel
(Nov. 17, 2016), Electronic Case Filing Docket Entry (“DE”) #41.1 In response, defense
counsel provides a litany of excuses for the delay, but agrees to provide “a full response to the
Initial Document Requests, including document production, no later than December 9, 2016.”
Def. Response at 2.
This case has now been pending since October 12, 2015 and discovery is scheduled to
close the end of next month. This Court will tolerate no further delays in the case.2 Defendant

1

As defendants note, see Response to Motion (Nov. 21, 2016) (“Def. Response”) at 1, DE
#42, the discovery demands in question were directed to one defendant, Braun, and not (as
plaintiff inaccurately suggests) to defendants collectively.

2

The pendency of defendants’ motion to amend their pleadings is no basis for resisting or
prolonging discovery.

Braun is directed, on pain of sanctions, to fully respond to plaintiff’s document demands and
interrogatories by close of business on December 9, 2016.
SO ORDERED.
Dated:

Brooklyn, New York
December 5, 2016
/s/

Roanne L. Mann

ROANNE L. MANN
CHIEF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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