LVB-Ogden Marketing LLC v. Bingham et al

Filing 196

MINUTE ORDER granting defendant Henry Dean's 173 Motion to Compel Responses and Overrule Objections to Trustee's First Interrogations and Second Request for Production. Authorized by Judge Thomas S. Zilly. (SWT)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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LVB-OGDEN MARKETING, LLC,
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Plaintiff,
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C18-243 TSZ
v.

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MINUTE ORDER
DAVID S. BINGHAM, et al.,

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Defendants.
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The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable
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(1)
Defendant Henry Dean’s Motion to Compel Responses and Overrule
Objections to Trustee’s First Interrogatories and Second Request for Production, docket
no. 173, is GRANTED for the reasons stated in the Court’s December 7, 2018, Minute
Order, docket no. 181. Plaintiff may not invoke the attorney-client privilege as a basis
for refusing to respond to the 9 interrogatories and 5 requests for production that are the
subject of Dean’s motion. The interrogatories and requests are not vague or ambiguous,
and the boilerplate objections are not well-taken. Plaintiff must make a “reasonable
effort to respond” to these requests. See Marti v. Baires, No. 08-653, 2012 WL 2029720,
at *6 (E.D. Cal. June 5, 2012).
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record.

The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Minute Order to all counsel of

Dated this 18th day of December, 2018.

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William M. McCool
Clerk

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s/Karen Dews
Deputy Clerk

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