THOMAS B. SMITH, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is Defendants' Motion to Compel Plaintiff's Full Compliance with Initial Disclosure Requirements Pursuant to Rule 26. (Doc. 15).
Plaintiff brings this case by and through his mother as his next best friend. (Doc. 2). He alleges that Defendants prepared, manufactured and packaged Hyland Teething Tablets for sale. (
Plaintiff timely served his FED. R. CIV. P. 26(a)(1)(A) initial disclosures on Defendants. (Doc. 15). Plaintiff provided the following information about his damages in his initial disclosures: "Any and all medical billings, property damages losses and loss wages and income of Plaintiff's parents as a result of the accident." (Doc. 15-1). Concerning documents and electronically stored information, Plaintiff said:
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Defendants informed Plaintiff that they believe his initial disclosures are insufficient because they do not include a damage estimate, articulation of the method(s) of calculating Plaintiff's damages, or any non-privileged documents bearing on and supporting Plaintiff's calculation of his damages. (Doc. 15). Counsel for the parties conferred and Plaintiff agreed to amend his disclosures by noon on October 24, 2014. (
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1)(A)(ii) states that as part of its initial disclosures, each party shall provide to the other parties "a copy—or a description by category and location—of all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that the disclosing party has in its possession, custody, or control and may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment." Parties are also required to provide "a computation of each category of damages claimed by the disclosing party—who must also make available for inspection and copying as under Rule 34 the documents or other evidentiary material, unless privileged or protected from disclosure, on which each computation is based, including materials bearing on the nature and extent of injuries suffered." FED. R. CIV. P. 26(a)(1)(A)(iii).
Plaintiff has not provided a computation of each category of his damages. He has also failed to provide a copy or description and location of all documents, including electronically stored information which support his damage claim. Accordingly, Defendants' motion is GRANTED. Plaintiff has seven days from the rendition of this Order within to supplement his initial disclosures by providing a good faith estimate of each category of damages he is claiming based upon the information currently available to him. He must also disclose the method or methods for calculating his alleged damages, and if his damage estimate or the methodology for calculating his damages changes during the course of this litigation, he shall supplement these disclosures in a timely manner.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(5)(A) provides that if a motion to compel is granted "the court must, after giving an opportunity to be heard, require the party or deponent whose conduct necessitated the motion, the party or attorney advising that conduct, or both to pay the movant's reasonable expenses incurred in making the motion, including attorney's fees." There are three exceptions to the Rule: (1) when the movant files the motion before attempting in good faith to obtain the disclosure or discovery without court action; (2) the nondisclosing parties' response, or objection was substantially justified; or (3) there are other circumstances that make an award of expenses unjust.