Health & Beauty Technologies, Inc et al v. Merz Pharma GmbH KgaA et al

Filing 200

ORDER granting 198 JOINT MOTION to Modify Schedule for Completion of Jurisdictional Discovery. Signed by District Judge Louise Wood Flanagan on 1/25/2019. (Collins, S.)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHERN DIVISION
No. 7:18-CV-00117-FL

HEALTH & BEAUTY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
and MEDI-BUILD INTERNATIONAL CORP.,
Plaintiffs,

ORDER
GRANTING JOINT MOTION TO
MODIFY SCHEDULE FOR
COMPLETION OF JURISDICTIONAL
DISCOVERY

v.
MERZ PHARMA GmbH KGAA, and MERZ
NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
Defendants.

This matter is before the Court upon the Joint Motion to Modify the Schedule for
Completion of Jurisdictional Discovery (“Joint Motion”).
It appearing to the Court, after considering the Joint Motion, (i) that the Joint Motion has
been timely filed; (ii) that the granting of the Joint Motion will not cause any undue delay or
prejudice to any other parties; (iii) that granting the Joint Motion will facilitate the efficient
administration of justice; and (iv) that, for good cause shown, the Joint Motion should be
granted.
IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that Plaintiffs and
Defendants’ Joint Motion to Modify the Schedule for Completion of Jurisdictional Discovery
should be, and hereby is, granted, and the jurisdictional discovery schedule is modified to reflect:
(1) a production deadline of February 12, 2019; (2) a deadline for Plaintiffs to request additional
documents of February 26, 2019; (3) a deadline for the parties to agree upon the scope of any
additional production of March 15, 2019; (4) a production deadline of April 15, 2019 for any

supplemental production; and (5) a modified deposition schedule conditioned upon either the
completion of the supplemental production or the parties’ agreement that no further production
will be necessary, with the depositions occurring within two weeks of either of those dates (if the
production is entirely in English) or four weeks of either of those dates (if the production is not
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entirely in English).

IT IS SO ORDERED.
25th

This ___ day of January, 2019.

____________________________________
LOUISE W. FLANAGAN
United States District Judge

1. All other terms and conditions set forth in the court's January 15, 2019, order not altered
herein shall remain in full force and effect.

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