MNE Trucking, Inc. v. OJ Commerce, LLC
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
INTRODUCTION & PROCEDURAL HISTORY
21 This is a business dispute between a trucking company, Plaintiff and 22 Counter-Defendant MNE Trucking, Inc. (“Plaintiff”), and one of its customers, 23 Defendant and Counter-Claimant OJ Commerce, LLC (“Defendant”),1 regarding 24 payment for services rendered, as well as the pricing for those services. (Dkt. 10 at 25 26
27 1 Defendant is an online retailer engaged in interstate commerce that sells 28 consumer goods. (Dkt. 33 at 3.) 1 to timely pay $91,647.50 for services rendered. (Dkt. 10 at 4.) After litigation 2 commenced, Defendant filed a Counterclaim alleging that Plaintiff misrepresented 3 its rates to induce Defendant to enter an agreement for trucking services and then 4 overcharged Defendant. (Dkt. 33 at 3-5.) 5 The parties have been engaged in discovery for months and the Court has 6 conducted 13 informal discovery conferences since December of 2024. (Dkts. 65, 7 66, 67, 69, 71, 75, 81, 92, 101, 108, 125, 129, 134.) One of the key discovery 8 disputes has been Defendant’s requests for production seeking Plaintiff’s invoices to 9 other customers. (Dkt. 103.) The Court previously determined that these requests 10 were…