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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000 Job Discrimination (Race)

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 Plaintiff has responded neither to the requests for admission, interrogatories, and requests

for production, nor to the court’s order for a response to be filed to the instant motion. Absent a

court order permitting withdrawal or amendment of plaintiff’s constructive admissions, they are

“conclusively established.” Fed.R.Civ.P. 36(b). The court “‘may permit withdrawal or amendment

[of an admission] when [(1)] the presentation of the merits of the action will be subserved thereby

and [(2)] the party who obtained the admission fails to satisfy the court that withdrawal or

amendment will prejudice that party in maintaining the action or defense on the merits.’” Id. at 470-

71 (citations omitted). Plaintiff has made no showing that would satisfy this test.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

NORTHERN DIVISION

DAVID W. SANKEY, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:04cv1146-F

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CITY OF LUVERNE, ALABAMA, )

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Defendants )

ORDER ON MOTION

Upon consideration of defendant’s motion to deem requests for admission admitted

and motion to compel (Doc. #13), and for good cause, it is

ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED. Defendant’s requests for admission (nos.

8, 9, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21) are hereby deemed admitted by operation of Fed. R. Civ.

P. 36(a). See ADM Agri-Industries, Ltd. v. Harvey, 200 F.R.D. 467, 470 (M.D. Ala. 2001)

(Rule 36 provides an automatic mechanism for deeming unanswered requests for admission

to be admitted).1

 Plaintiff shall provide his initial disclosures and responses to interrogatories

and requests for production to defendant on or before October 15, 2005. Plaintiff is strongly

CAUTIONED that, if he fails to meet this deadline, his case may be dismissed.

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DONE, this 5th day of October, 2005.

/s/ Susan Russ Walker 

SUSAN RUSS WALKER

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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