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Parties Involved:
Atlantic Track and Runway Services, LLC
Defendant
John Dunn
Defendant
Davevon Henderson
Plaintiff
Rick Swope
Defendant

Document Text:

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

TEXARKANA DIVISION 

 

DAVEVON HENDERSON PLAINTIFF 

 

v. Civil No. 4:23-cv-04078 

 

ATLANTIC TRACK AND RUNWAY 

SERVICES, LLC, RICK SWOPE, AND 

JOHN DUNN DEFENDANTS 

 

ORDER 

Before the Court is Separate Defendant Atlantic Track and Runway Services’ (“ATRS”) 

Motion to Compel and Request for Sanctions. ECF No. 45. This Motion was filed on June 6, 

2024. Plaintiff Henderson has not responded to the Motion and the time to do so has passed. The 

Motion has been referred to the undersigned and is now ripe for consideration. 

 On March 26, 2024, ATRS propounded its first set of discovery requests to Plaintiff. The 

requests included 20 Interrogatories, 15 Requests for Production of Documents, and 25 Requests 

for Admission. Responses to these requests were due on or before April 25, 2024. ECF No. 46, p. 

2. On April 25, 2024, Plaintiff’s counsel requested a two-week extension of time to provide 

responses to the discovery. Before counsel for ATRS could respond to this request for an 

extension, Plaintiff’s counsel forwarded responses to ATRS’s discovery requests. Id. 

 ATRS argues the responses to all their discovery requests were “woefully deficient” 

containing mostly boilerplate objections and objections which have no legal basis under the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. ECF No. 46, p. 3. According to ATRS, during its attempts to 

confer, Plaintiff’s counsel offered more baseless objections and delay tactics. Id. On May 24, 2024, 

counsel for Plaintiff sent documents identified as “Plaintiff’s First Amended Objections and 

Response to Defendant’s RFA’s, RFP, and Ints, and a proposed medical authorization.” ECF No. 

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46, p. 9. On May 30, 2024, counsel for Plaintiff informed ATRS that “we have been unable to 

contact or communicate with Plaintiff Henderson for a period of months”. ECF No. 46-1, p. 3. 

ATRS argues sanctions should be imposed against counsel for Plaintiff because they have “abused 

the judicial system, engaged in deceptive behavior, and stall[ed] this matter for weeks”. ECF No. 

46, p. 10. 

Based on the Motion to Compel and for Sanctions (ECF No. 45), the Memorandum of Law 

and accompanying exhibits in support of the Motion (ECF No. 46), and the fact Plaintiff has not 

filed any response to the Motion, the Court: 

1. GRANTS Defendant ATRS’s Motion to Compel (ECF No. 45) with respect to all

discovery requests submitted to Plaintiff. Plaintiff is ORDERED to fully respond to all

the discovery requests at issue on or before July 21, 2024, which is the deadline for

discovery in this case; and

2. DENIES ATRS’s Motion for Sanctions. However, Plaintiff is warned that sanctions will

be ordered if Plaintiff fails to timely and fully respond to all discovery requests as ordered

herein.

ENTERED this 10th day of July 2024.

/s/ Barry A. Bryant

HON. BARRY A. BRYANT

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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