Flannery Assoc. LLC v. Barnes Family Ranch Assoc., LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 FLANNERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00927 TLN AC Plaintiff, v. ORDER BARNES FAMILY RANCH ASSOCIATES, LLC, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Pending before the court is plaintiff’s motion to compel production from defendant Richard Anderson. ECF No. 124. This discovery matter was referred to the undersigned pursuant to E.D. Cal. R. (“Local Rule”) 302(c)(1). The motion was taken under submission for consideration on the papers. ECF No. 125. Local Rule 251(b) establishes requirements for any party bringing a motion pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26 through 37, including the requirement that the parties meet and confer and file a joint discovery statement. Here, no adequate joint discovery statement has been filed. Instead, plaintiff filed a version of a joint statement that was not approved by Anderson (ECF No. 126), and Anderson filed a redlined version of the joint statement in an attempt to show that plaintiff made many…