MARIAN W. PAYSON, Magistrate Judge.
Pending before this Court are two motions. The first, filed by defendants, seeks an extension of the Court-ordered deadlines for discovery until after September 8, 2017, the day after plaintiff was noticed to appear for his deposition. (Docket # 66). The second, filed by plaintiff, seeks an order compelling defendants to provide him with copies of defendants' mandatory disclosures, rather than to make them available to him for inspection. (Docket # 72). Motion scheduling orders were issued on each setting deadlines for the filing of any opposition papers. (Docket ## 73, 74). Plaintiff has filed no opposition to defendants' motion. Defendants have opposed plaintiff's motion. (Docket # 75).
The affidavit filed in support of defendants' motion to extend affirms that plaintiff failed to appear for his deposition, prompting defendants to move to dismiss the action. (Docket # 66-1 at ¶ 4). Defendants subsequently withdrew the motion upon plaintiff's representation that he had not received the Notice of Deposition. (Id. at ¶ 6). Defendants re-noticed plaintiff's deposition for September 7, 2017, and requested through the pending motion that the discovery deadlines be held in abeyance pending plaintiff's deposition. (Id. at ¶¶ 8-10). Since the motion was filed, plaintiff's deposition was adjourned until January 16, 2018 (Docket # 70) due to plaintiff's inability to travel from Florida for his September 7, 2017 deposition because of the state of emergency in Florida relating to Hurricane Irma. (Docket # 72 at 3). On this record, including plaintiff's lack of opposition to the relief requested, defendants' motion is granted. Following plaintiff's deposition on January 16, 2018, the parties are directed to confer on amended scheduling deadlines, and defendants' counsel shall submit a jointly-proposed amended scheduling order by no later than
With respect to plaintiff's motion (Docket # 72), defendants are directed to make their mandatory disclosures (those documents that respond to paragraph 3 of this Court's May 4, 2017 scheduling order (Docket # 51)) available for inspection by plaintiff upon reasonable notice, including during the week preceding his January 16, 2018 deposition. In addition, defendants are directed to prepare an index of those documents, accompanied by a designation of the number of pages for each document or category of documents indexed. Defendants shall provide a copy of the index to plaintiff and this Court by no later than
Accordingly, defendants' motion to adjourn discovery deadlines