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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Tort/Motor Vehicle (P.I.)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

CENTRAL DIVISION

MALCOM PHINNEY PLAINTIFF

v. No. 4:23-cv-1095-DPM

GREENWOD MOTOR LINES, INC., d/b/a 

R+L CARRIERS; MATTHEW DAKUS; 

and JOHN DOE, Motor Carriers 1-5 DEFENDANTS

ORDER

Unopposed motion, Doc. 34, granted for good cause. Proposed 

new deadlines adopted. An Amended Final Scheduling Order will 

issue.

The Court notes the parties’ joint report of a discovery dispute 

about Matthew Dakus’s cell phone records. While it is a healthy 

sample, the ninety days of these phone records produced in Crosby 

could lead to the discovery of facts that might be admissible on some of

Phinney’s claims. The data is at hand. Dakus can provide the records

subject to a mutually agreeable Protective Order. Discoverability and 

admissibility are, of course, different issues. Joint report, Doc. 33, 

addressed.

Phinney’s motion to transfer, Doc. 31, is denied. There would be 

some judicial economy in sending this case to Chief Judge Baker. Both 

motions arise from the same multi-vehicle accident. But, the issues in 

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