Susan P. Moran, et al. v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

Summary

The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma denied Plaintiffs’ motion to compel without prejudice because the parties had not satisfied the local meet-and-confer requirement and had misstated aspects of the discovery requests. The court denied Plaintiffs’ motion to stay all deadlines as moot.

Holdings

1. A conference held approximately ten months before the motion to compel, and before the defendant made additional discovery productions, did not satisfy Local Civil Rule 37.1's requirement of a genuine and good-faith effort to resolve the parties' current discovery differences.
2. The motion to stay was denied as moot after the court denied the motion to compel.

Questions Presented

1. Whether plaintiffs satisfied Local Civil Rule 37.1's requirement that counsel make a genuine, good-faith, and sufficiently current effort to resolve a discovery dispute before filing a motion to compel.
2. Whether the court should stay all case deadlines because similar discovery motions had been granted in state court and State Farm allegedly anticipated seeking writs of prohibition from the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Disposition

other