Moriarty

I. INTRODUCTION

21 In the latest season of this five-year litigation, Michelle Moriarty (“Plaintiff”) brings 22 three discovery disputes for this Court’s resolution. Notably, the disputes arose before fact 23 discovery closed and persisted while the January 26, 2021 stay was in effect. Nevertheless, 24 Plaintiff raised the disputes to this Court on November 10, 2021, more than two weeks 25 after the stay lifted on October 25, 2021. Curiously, Plaintiff’s languid approach to her 26 discovery obligations offers a striking contrast to the magnitude and urgency of the 27 discovery she moves this Court to compel. In particular, Plaintiff asks the Court to require 28 American General Life Insurance Company’s (“Defendant”) to supplement broad swaths of existing discovery; reopen discovery to obtain additional discovery from Defendant; and order Defendant to produce a document that Plaintiff implicitly acknowledges is privileged. The Court has carefully considered the Parties’ respective briefs and supporting exhibits on each of these issues. In doing so, the Court finds no factual or legal basis to grant any of Plaintiff’s discovery requests.…