ORDER

JAMES L. COTT, Magistrate Judge.

Before the Court are defendants' objections (Dkt. No. 405) under the Forensic Protocol Order (Dkt. No. 379) to the production of certain documents requested by plaintiffs pursuant to paragraph 6 of the Order. Familiarity with the Order as well as the parties' dispute is assumed. The Court has reviewed the parties' submissions and overrules defendants' objections. While defendants set forth several bases for their objections, they do not contend that the production of the 21 outstanding documents is either burdensome or implicates privilege.1 On the record presented, the Court finds that production of the limited number of additional documents sought by plaintiffs is justified. Part of their claim is that defendant Mende dominated the family of companies he owned (along with defendant Kundrun) and plaintiffs want to establish Mende's relationship with those entities and his purported control over them. These documents appear to be relevant to that claim, and the issue before the Court is simply their discoverability, not their admissibility. Moreover, there is force to plaintiffs' argument that the production of these 21 documents may have some relevance to their ESI investigation. That said, and in light of defendants' reply letter (Dkt. No. 412), the Court declines to order defendants to explain why these outstanding documents (as well as the other so-called New Mende emails) were not previously discovered, and what steps they have taken to confirm no new ESI remains to be produced.

Defendants are directed to produce the 21 outstanding documents by March 11, 2020.

SO ORDERED.