Opinion ID: 1959174
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Requests for Admissions to the Plaintiffs

Text: Early in this litigation, Seaman served two sets of requests for admissions on the Clevelands and Head, seeking to authenticate various written statements Seaman had previously received from the Clevelands, Sarah Head, and other members of their family. The Clevelands and Head did not respond to the requests, and, as part of its September 9, 1999, discovery order, the court deemed conclusively established paragraphs 4 through 12 of Seaman's first requests for admissions and paragraphs 1 through 24 of Seaman's second request for admissions. Seaman also served the Clevelands with its third requests for admissions, second interrogatories, and second request for production of documents. The Clevelands and Head responded to this with a statement that seemed to deny the requests for admissions, but that contained no responses to the follow-up interrogatories or the requests for documents. Informal efforts by Seaman's counsel to obtain responses were unsuccessful, and Seaman filed its fourth Rule 37 motion to dismiss for failure to allow discovery. That motion was based primarily on the Clevelands and Head's failure to answer the second interrogatories or to respond to the second document request. The Clevelands and Head filed nothing in opposition to this motion. No ruling or hearing on this motion occurred in the year 2000.