ORDER

KENNETH D. BELL, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court sua sponte as a result of the filing of Relators' Citation of Supplemental Authority in Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment, (Doc. No. 161), at approximately 2:40 p.m. today, July 24, 2019. Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment was filed in this action on March 7, 2019, and the parties extensive briefing on that motion closed with Relators being permitted to file a Surreply on May 20, 2019. On July 3, 2019, the Court set a hearing on the motion for July 25, 2019, tomorrow, at 9:30 a.m.

While Local Rule 7.1 provides for the citation of "pertinent and significant" "supplemental" authority, it does not permit a party to wait until just hours before a summary judgment hearing to cite cases from 2012 and 2015 and statutes enacted in 2009 seeking to substantively address an issue that was first raised in Defendant's initial memorandum in support of their summary judgment motion over four months ago. Such a belated filing simply does not provide the opposing party or the Court a fair and adequate opportunity to respond to and appropriately consider the authority.

Accordingly, the Court finds that the interests of justice require that Relators' Citation of Supplemental Authority in Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment be struck, and it is hereby ORDERED that the Clerk strike Doc. 161 and that it not be considered in this action.1