First American Title Insurance et al v. Northwest Title Insurance Agency et al
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MEMORANDUM DECISION denying 108 Motion to Compel. Signed by Magistrate Judge Paul M. Warner on 5/20/16 (alt)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH, CENTRAL DIVISION
FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE
COMPANY and FIRST AMERICAN TITLE
COMPANY, LLC,
MEMORANDUM DECISION
Case No. 2:15-cv-00229-DN-PMW
Plaintiffs,
v.
District Judge David Nuffer
NORTHWEST TITLE INSURANCE
AGENCY, LLC, et al.
Magistrate Judge Paul M. Warner
Defendants.
District Judge David Nuffer referred this case to Magistrate Judge Paul M. Warner
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A).1 Judge Nuffer ordered the parties to follow the Short
Form Discovery Motion Procedure.2 Before the court is Defendant Kristi Carrell’s “Short Form
Discovery Motion Compelling Complete Answers to Kristi Carrell’s First Set of Interrogatories
and Requests for Production of Documents and Things.”3
Defendant Carrell seeks an order compelling FATCO to “identify all individuals or
entities that were shown copies of the Complaint in this matter by Mark Webber or any other
FATCO employee,” as well as “all FATCO customers or potential customers who were provided
information about the claims in this lawsuit by any FATCO employee.”4 Defendant Carrell
1
Docket no. 27.
2
Docket no. 39.
3
Docket no. 108.
4
Docket no. 108-1 at 6 (Interrogatories nos. 1&2).
states that the “interrogatories are relevant to the issue of offsets and go to the bona fides of the
Complaint.”5
Defendant Carrell’s motion to compel6 is DENIED. The information sought appears
wholly irrelevant. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). Moreover, the requested discovery is not
“proportional to the needs of the case, considering the importance of the issues at stake in the
action, . . . the importance of the discovery in resolving the issues, and whether the burden or
expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit.” Id.
The court declines to impose sanctions on Defendant Carrell at this time.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED this 20th day of May, 2016.
BY THE COURT:
PAUL M. WARNER
United States Magistrate Judge
5
Docket no. 108.
6
Docket no. 108.
2
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