Opinion ID: 1041846
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Discovery and Other Pretrial Motions

Text: The plaintiffs argue that the district court “erred by not enforcing discovery orders, by not compelling discovery responses and erred in not granting participants’ discovery motions.” Appellants’ Br. 63-64. Throughout this litigation, the defendants maintained that they had produced with their initial disclosures the benefit calculations and all documentation relating to the plans for the ten years preceding the initiation of the lawsuit. After they were ordered to do so, the defendants also produced available information relating to the plans and the plaintiffs dating back to 1974. The plaintiffs have not identified any specific documents or discoverable information that they lacked and which prevented them from calculating the benefits due under the plans. Moreover, in the circumstances of this case, we find no impropriety in Judge Young’s April 2012 order limiting the motions that he would entertain. Nor do we find any abuse of discretion in Judge Jones’s or Judge Young’s other rulings on discovery motions. Schaffart v. ONEOK, Inc., 686 F.3d 461, 472 (8th Cir. 2012) (standard of review). The plaintiffs also argue that the district court should have granted their motions to remove the Prices as trustees of the plans and to require the defendants to retain separate attorneys. Having cited no relevant law in support of their arguments, they have failed to show that the district court erred in denying the motions. -9-