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Parties Involved:
Alabama Department of Public Safety
Defendant
Sherry Anne Bailey-Potts
Plaintiff

Document Text:

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, EASTERN DIVISION

SHERRY ANNE BAILEY-POTTS, )

)

Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

v. ) 3:11cv495-MHT

) (WO) 

ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF )

PUBLIC SAFETY, )

)

Defendant. )

ORDER

Defendant Alabama Department of Public Safety ("DPS")

has filed a motion to strike portions of the filing of

plaintiff Sherry Anne Bailey-Potts ("Bailey-Potts") in

response to DPS’s motion for summary judgment. 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(f) applies only to

pleadings: “The court may strike from a pleading an

insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial,

impertinent, or scandalous matter.” DPS's motion to

“strike” facts in a response to a motion for summary

judgement is not a request to strike material from a

pleading. Mann v. Darden, 2009 WL 2019588 (M.D. Ala. July

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6, 2009). Nevertheless, in resolving DPS's summaryjudgment motion, the court has implicitly considered the

motion to strike as, instead, an objection to the evidence

offered by Bailey-Potts. The court is capable of sifting

through the evidence, as required by the summary-judgment

process, without resort to a motion process.

***

Accordingly, it is ORDERED that defendant Alabama

Department of Public Safety’s motion to strike (Doc. No.

24) is denied.

DONE, this the 21st day of February, 2012.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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