KENNETH G. GALE, Magistrate Judge.
Now before the Court is Defendant Credit One Bank's Motion for Partial Reconsideration (Doc. 55) of this Court's Order (Doc. 54) on Plaintiff's Motion to Compel (Doc. 43.) For the reasons set forth below, Defendant's motion (Doc. 55) is
Plaintiff brings the present action alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq. ("FCRA"). Plaintiff contends that Defendant Credit One Bank, N.A. ("Defendant") "willfully or negligently, violated" the FCRA "by failing to respond to reinvestigation requests and failing to supply accurate and truthful information." (Doc. 1-1, at ¶ 27.) Plaintiff alleges that Defendant "knew or should have known that its reporting and activities would (and will) damage Plaintiff and ability to enjoy life and utilize the credit rating and reputation property rights secured by honoring obligations to all of creditors." (Id., at ¶ 31.)
Plaintiff's underlying motion to compel relates to Defendant's responses to Requests for Production Nos. 7, 10, and 13. (Doc. 43-1.) Defendant's motion for partial reconsideration relates only to Request No. 13 — "[a]ll documents reflecting any lawsuits where a consumer sued Credit One Bank and a consumer reporting agency in the past five years relating to the misreporting of joint responsibility for consumer accounts." (Id., at 5.)
As an initial matter, Plaintiff is correct that Defendant's motion is untimely. (Doc. 70, at 4.) Pursuant to D. Kan. Rule 7.3, a party "seeking reconsideration of non-dispositive orders must file a motion within 14 days after the order is filed unless the court extends the time." Defendant waited an entire month to file the present motion (Doc. 55) after the Court entered the underlying Order (Doc. 54). Defendant's motion is, therefore,
Even assuming the Court were to grant Defendant's request to find the delay in filing the motion to be excusable (Doc. 77, at 3), the Court also finds Defendant's motion should be denied on substantive grounds. As stated above, Request for Production No. 13 asks for "[a]ll documents reflecting any lawsuits where a consumer sued Credit One Bank and a consumer reporting agency in the past five years relating to the misreporting of joint responsibility for consumer accounts." (Doc. 43-1, at 5.) In its responsive brief, Defendant contends that it
(Doc. 48, at 5 (citation omitted).)
Defendant ultimately provided a supplemental response to Plaintiff after its response to the underlying motion to compel. The supplemental response to Request No. 13 was "limited to a list of the names of plaintiffs/claimants, and the state in which the lawsuit/arbitration was brought," without including a case name, case number, or the court in which the lawsuit was filed. (Doc. 51, at 4.) Defendant contends that it "does not keep records of the case numbers or jurisdictions of the lawsuits/arbitrations it is a party to." (Id.)
In its underlying Order, this Court held that if Defendant was willing and able to compile a list of names of plaintiffs/claimants and the state in which their lawsuit/arbitration was brought, the Court sees no valid reason why Defendant could not have — and should not be required to — include the case number and jurisdiction. (Doc. 54, at 9.) As the Court previously held, "[t]o do so would have required little to no additional effort based on the information presented to the Court." (Id.)
In the motion for partial reconsideration, Defendant argues that the Court should not require it
(Doc. 55, at 2.)
"A motion to reconsider is not a second chance for the losing party to make its strongest case or to dress up arguments that previously failed."
Defendant does contend that new evidence is available. Defendant argues that the testimony of Mr. Haynal regarding Defendant's record-keeping (that Defendant categorizes these lawsuits "just simply by name and state," Doc. 55-1, at 1, 10-11) constitutes "newly discovered evidence." While the deposition may have been completed after the Court entered the underlying Order, the information presented in Mr. Haynal's testimony should have and would have been available to Defendant when the underlying motion was briefed. Even assuming this to constitute newly available evidence, the Court is unpersuaded that this information necessitates reaching a different result on the merits of Defendant's motion. As such, the Court will review Defendant's request for reconsideration in the context of the final basis — correction of clear error or prevention of manifest injustice.
While Defendant argues the burden placed on it to compile such a list would be "disproportionate," this does not equate to "clear error" or "manifest injustice." Plaintiff could have just as easily have posed this question in the form of an interrogatory asking Defendant to respond by listing such lawsuits and identifying each by the case number and jurisdiction. The Court does not find it to be manifestly unjust or clearly erroneous to require Defendant to provide this information in response to Plaintiff's document request, regardless of how Defendant chooses to "systematically track" such information. Defendant's motion is, therefore,