Woodward v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company

Filing 22

ORDER denying 21 Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages by Judge Benjamin H Settle.(TG)

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1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 7 8 LAURA WOODWARD, 9 Plaintiff, 10 v. 11 AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 12 Defendant. 13 CASE NO. C13-6005 BHS ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE EXCESS PAGES 14 This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff Laura Woodward’s (“Woodward”) 15 motion for leave to file excess pages (Dkt. 21). 16 On March 13, 2014, Woodward filed the instant motion requesting leave to file a 17 twenty-six-page motion to compel. Dkt. 21. The motion is DENIED. Discovery 18 motions are generally disfavored because the Court expects the attorneys to resolve the 19 great majority of discovery issues and only seek Court intervention for the disputes where 20 there is no possibility of resolution without such intervention. Moreover, this case is in 21 its infancy and an early, overlength motion to compel is most likely unnecessary and 22 ORDER - 1 1 experience shows that seeking court intervention this early most likely leads to seeking 2 court intervention for the majority of discovery requests. Woodward shall submit what 3 she considers to be the most important alleged discovery abuses that will fit within the 4 applicable page, font, and formatting limits. 5 IT IS SO ORDERED. 6 Dated this 13th day of March, 2014. A 7 8 BENJAMIN H. SETTLE United States District Judge 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ORDER - 2

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