GRANT v. TARGET CORPORATION, CV414-132. (2015)
Court: District Court, S.D. Georgia
Number: infdco20150202745
Visitors: 15
Filed: Jan. 30, 2015
Latest Update: Jan. 30, 2015
Summary: ORDER G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge. In this slip-and-fall case defendant moves to compel plaintiff to undergo a Fed. R. Civ. P. 35 independent medical examination to corroborate her claim that she suffers from severe back pain as a result of the incident giving rise to her suit. (Doc. 14.) Plaintiff insists that she already underwent an independent medical examination in 2012, during the pendency of a prior state court action that she later dismissed without prejudice and refiled in 2014. (Do
Summary: ORDER G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge. In this slip-and-fall case defendant moves to compel plaintiff to undergo a Fed. R. Civ. P. 35 independent medical examination to corroborate her claim that she suffers from severe back pain as a result of the incident giving rise to her suit. (Doc. 14.) Plaintiff insists that she already underwent an independent medical examination in 2012, during the pendency of a prior state court action that she later dismissed without prejudice and refiled in 2014. (Doe..
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ORDER
G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge.
In this slip-and-fall case defendant moves to compel plaintiff to undergo a Fed. R. Civ. P. 35 independent medical examination to corroborate her claim that she suffers from severe back pain as a result of the incident giving rise to her suit. (Doc. 14.) Plaintiff insists that she already underwent an independent medical examination in 2012, during the pendency of a prior state court action that she later dismissed without prejudice and refiled in 2014. (Doe. 15-1 at 2-3.) Plaintiff also points out, however, that defendant failed to submit a certification showing that the parties conferred in a good faith effort to resolve the dispute before coming to Court. (Id. at 5.)
Local Rule 26.5(c) reminds attorneys "that Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c) and 37(a)(2) require a party seeking a protective order or moving to compel discovery to certify that a good faith effort has been made to resolve the dispute before coming to court." "That rule is enforced." Hernandez v. Hendrix Produce, Inc., 2014 WL 953503 at *1 (S.D. Ga. Mar. 10, 2014). And the conference must be meaningful. Hernandez v. Hendrix Produce, Inc., 297 F.R.D. 538, 540 (S.D. Ga. 2014). Since no certification was provided, defendant's motion to compel a medical examination (doc. 14) is DENIED as premature.
SO ORDERED.
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