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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Injunctive &amp; Declaratory Relief

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROMEO BRAVO, INC., et al.,

Plaintiffs, CIV. NO. S-06-1947 LKK GGH

vs.

LYCOMING ENGINES, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Presently before the court is plaintiffs’ ex parte application for a discovery

conference to resolve pending discovery disputes on shortened time, filed March 3, 2008. 

Defendants have filed an opposition. 

Some of the discovery disputes at issue arise out of this court’s order of December

20, 2007, which addressed in part document production and privilege logs relating to that

production. The purpose of that summary order was to apprise the parties of the urgency in

completing discovery in a timely manner and to give plaintiffs a window of two weeks after the

last date for production (January 31, 2008) to review the production and file a motion to compel

that would be in compliance with Judge Karlton’s scheduling order. That order, which extended

the discovery cutoff for the second time in this case, required: “Discovery shall be conducted so

as to be completed by March 14, 2008. Motions to compel discovery must be noticed so as to be

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 At one point, the undersigned stated: 1

[Y]ou can see the problem I’ve had is this has been kicking down

the road for quite a while and we don’t have time to have a rolling

basis. We keep extending, or Judge Karlton does, extending the

dates in this case; he’s going to get tired of that pretty soon, and I

have to live with that as well, what his orders are. I don’t – I can’t

change them. 

(Hrg. Tr. at 13-14.) 

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heard no later than February 14, 2008.” Order, filed October 10, 2007. At the December 20,

2007 hearing, the court specifically warned the parties of the looming discovery deadline and that

it could not modify the district court’s scheduling orders.

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It now appears from plaintiffs’ ex parte application that defendants have violated

this court’s summary order in a way that plaintiffs could not have predetermined, by producing

supplemental privilege logs on February 8, 13, and 15, 2008. The order required defendants to

produce their privilege log by January 15, 2008. However, plaintiffs make no motion for

sanctions, including evidentiary sanctions, which is the only type of motion capable of being

heard by the undersigned in light of the district court’s scheduling order. If plaintiffs believe they

have been aggrieved by defendants’ untimely production, they now must make a motion before

Judge Karlton. 

The remainder of plaintiffs’ application concerns discovery which should have

been addressed at a hearing on or before February 14, 2008, and which does not appear related to

the matters raised before this court at the December 20 hearing. These newly raised matters th

include interrogatory responses produced by defendants on December 31, 2007 which plaintiffs

claim are inadequate, and the noticed deposition of Richard Millman to which defendants have

objected. These matters could have been brought earlier and should have been raised in a timely

motion before the discovery cutoff. 

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Accordingly, IT IS SO ORDERED that plaintiffs’ ex parte application for a

discovery conference on shortened time, filed March 3, 2008, is denied. 

DATED: 03/06/08

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS

 U. S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE

GGH:076/RomeoBravo1947.ost.wpd

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