ADT Services AG et al v. Brady et al

Filing 186

ORDER Directing Further Briefing re 184 MOTION to Compel Completion of Discovery and Permit Expert Designations filed by ADT Services AG, ADT Security Services, Inc., Plaintiffs' Supplement to Motion due by 8/28/2013 . Signed by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland on 8/21/2013. (lgw)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
WESTERN DIVISION

ADT SERVICES, AG, et al.,
Plaintiff,
Case No. 10-2197

v.
THOMAS BRADY, et al.,
Defendants.
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ORDER DIRECTING FURTHER BRIEFING
Because “the record contains signs . . . that, under a previous judge, Defendants
impeded discovery,” a July 10, 2013, order allowed Plaintiffs to move to compel at a late
stage in the action. In their motion Plaintiffs seek to compel Defendants “to produce all
documents” that respond to an April 12, 2013, request for production. The request for
production, in turn, asks Defendants both to supplement responses to several of
Plaintiffs’ earlier discovery requests and to comply with several discovery orders.
Plaintiffs plainly demand a recent list of Defendants’ customers. Other than that,
however, they pursue documents only broadly and obscurely. Neither the motion to
compel nor the request for production identifies discrete categories of unproduced
papers, and, as a result, it is impossible to award Plaintiffs specific, delimited relief, or to
issue an order that Defendants can with management observe. (Likewise it is
impossible to assess Plaintiffs’ argument that the obstruction of discovery warrants the
appointment of a damages expert.) More description is probably sufficient, but certainly
necessary; Plaintiffs, to get more documents, must give more detail. Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall by August 28, 2013, in no more than four
pages, supplement the motion to compel with an exact—and restrained—request for
production.

s/Robert H. Cleland
ROBERT H. CLELAND
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated: August 21, 2013

I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was mailed to counsel of record
on this date, August 21, 2013, by electronic and/or ordinary mail.
s/Lisa Wagner
Case Manager and Deputy Clerk
[phone]

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