Filed: Aug. 08, 2019
Latest Update: Aug. 08, 2019
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOSEPH R. GOODWIN , District Judge . Pending are (1) Defendant's Motion to Dismiss, filed by Tissue Science Laboratories Limited ("TSL") on March 30, 2018 [ECF No. 17]; and (2) Defendant C.R. Bard, Inc.'s Notice of Joinder in Defendant Tissue Science Laboratories Ltd.'s Motion to Dismiss, filed July 17, 2019 [ECF No. 23]. Defendant TSL asserts in the first Motion [ECF No. 17], joined by C. R. Bard, Inc. ("Bard") [ECF No. 23], that plaintiffs' case should be dism
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOSEPH R. GOODWIN , District Judge . Pending are (1) Defendant's Motion to Dismiss, filed by Tissue Science Laboratories Limited ("TSL") on March 30, 2018 [ECF No. 17]; and (2) Defendant C.R. Bard, Inc.'s Notice of Joinder in Defendant Tissue Science Laboratories Ltd.'s Motion to Dismiss, filed July 17, 2019 [ECF No. 23]. Defendant TSL asserts in the first Motion [ECF No. 17], joined by C. R. Bard, Inc. ("Bard") [ECF No. 23], that plaintiffs' case should be dismi..
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MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JOSEPH R. GOODWIN, District Judge.
Pending are (1) Defendant's Motion to Dismiss, filed by Tissue Science Laboratories Limited ("TSL") on March 30, 2018 [ECF No. 17]; and (2) Defendant C.R. Bard, Inc.'s Notice of Joinder in Defendant Tissue Science Laboratories Ltd.'s Motion to Dismiss, filed July 17, 2019 [ECF No. 23]. Defendant TSL asserts in the first Motion [ECF No. 17], joined by C. R. Bard, Inc. ("Bard") [ECF No. 23], that plaintiffs' case should be dismissed with prejudice for failure to comply with court orders, including the failure to timely provide the defendants with required pretrial discovery in violation of Pretrial Order Numbers 27, 28 and 275. Plaintiffs, who are pro se, have not responded. It appears from the docket that the plaintiffs' address is not current.
On July 10, 2019, the court entered a Show Cause Order directing plaintiffs to show cause on or before July 24, 2019, why the defendant who filed the first motion should not be dismissed. [ECF No. 22]. The court sent a copy of this order to plaintiffs at their last known address and posted it on the court's public website. Plaintiffs did not show cause or otherwise respond.
The court finds, pursuant to Rules 16 and 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and after weighing the factors identified in Wilson v. Volkswagen of Am., Inc., 561 F.2d 494, 503-06 (4th Cir. 1977), that this case should be dismissed without prejudice for plaintiffs' failure to respond to the show cause order and otherwise comply with discovery deadlines in compliance with the court's previous pretrial and other orders.
Therefore, the court ORDERS that the motion to dismiss [ECF No. 17] is GRANTED in part to the extent the moving defendant, joined by Bard, seeks dismissal and DENIED in part insofar as defendants seek dismissal with prejudice. The court ORDERS that the defendants are dismissed without prejudice. No other defendants remain and the case is stricken from the docket and closed.
The court DIRECTS the Clerk to send a copy of this order to counsel of record and plaintiff at her last known address.
