QFS Transportation, LLC v. Estrada Transport Group, Inc. et al

Filing 50

ORDER following 9/23/2024 Informal Discovery Conference. Knight is ORDERED to produce the information by October 9, 2024. Signed by Magistrate Judge Karen L. Litkovitz on 9/23/2024. (art)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
WESTERN DIVISION
QFS TRANSPORTATION, LLC,
Plaintiff,
vs.
ESTRADA TRANSPORT GROUP, INC., et al.,
Defendants.

Case No. 1:21-cv-0092
McFarland, J.
Litkovitz, M.J.
ORDER

This matter is before the Court following the informal discovery conference held by
telephone and recorded on September 23, 2024. Counsel for plaintiff QFS Transportation, LLC
(QFS); counsel for defendant Knight Express, Inc. (Knight); and Claudia Zambrano, the owner
of Knight Express, Inc., appeared and participated in the conference. At issue are the responses
received to QFS’s May 30, 2024 Second Set of Interrogatories and Requests for Production of
Documents directed to Knight:
1. Interrogatory No. 20: Identify the full legal name and last known contact information
of any of Knight’s driver(s) currently or formerly associated with the Illinois license plate
number P1022666.
2. Interrogatory No. 21: For any driver(s) identified in Interrogatory No. 20, provide
the dates the driver was employed by or affiliated with Knight.
3. Interrogatory No. 25: Identify all revenue (not estimates or approximations)
generated by you from August 1, 2020 through January 31, 2022, and itemize such
revenue with respect to each customer from when it was received.
4. Request for Production No. 16: All documents and communications associated with
or involving any driver(s) identified in Interrogatory No. 21.
5. Request for Production No. 17: Records showing all actual revenue (not estimates or
approximations) generated by you from August 1, 2020, through January 31, 2022, and
itemizing such revenue with respect to each customer from when it was received.

For the reasons stated by the Court on the record, Knight must produce exact revenue
information—not estimates or approximations—in response to Interrogatory No. 25 and Request
for Production No. 17.
In addition, Knight must produce information relating to former drivers in response to
Interrogatory Nos. 20 and 21 and Request for Production No. 16. To the extent such information
no longer exists, Knight is ordered to identify why it does not.
Knight is ORDERED to produce this information by October 9, 2024.
IT IS SO ORDERED.

9/23/2024
Date: ______________

Karen L. Litkovitz
United States Magistrate Judge

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