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

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The sole exception is Bates No. Creative 1930 which Plaintiff indicates was disclosed

by Defendant.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION,

Plaintiff,

v.

CREATIVE NETWORKS, LLC, an

Arizona corporation,

Defendant.

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No. CV 05-3032-PHX-SMM

ORDER

Before the Court is Plaintiff EEOC’s (“Plaintiff”) Motion to Strike, or in the

Alternative, Motion for Leave to File Surreply, filed on September 2, 2009 (Doc. 152).

Plaintiff requests that this Court strike (1) Section D(1) of Defendant Creative Networks,

LLC’s summary judgment Reply and (2) Exhibit D of the Reply. Defendant Creative

Networks , LLC (“Defendant”) responded to the motion to strike on September 25, 2009

(Doc. 155) and Plaintiff replied on October 5, 2009 (Doc. 156).

In its Reply, Plaintiff states that the documents in Exhibit D were never disclosed

previously by Defendant.1

 Plaintiff states that only documents up to Bates No. Creative 1929

were disclosed, while Exhibit D contains documents with Bates No. Creative 1930-49, 1950-

51, 1979-82, 1995-2041. However, Plaintiff has not shown that such documents were ever

requested by Plaintiff and what, if any, documents were produced as a result of such a

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request. In order to address this discovery issue and whether Exhibit D should be stricken,

the Court will schedule an in-court hearing with the parties. 

Accordingly, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED setting a hearing before the Honorable Stephen M.

McNamee for Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 1:30 p.m.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no later than Monday, November 30, 2009,

Plaintiff shall submit to the Court any proof showing that the documents in Exhibit D were

requested by Plaintiff pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and what response,

if any, was given by Defendant to such a document request. Defendants shall also submit

a short brief of no more than 3 pages addressing Plaintiff’s claims of non-disclosure by

Monday, November 30, 2009.

DATED this 17th day of November, 2009.

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