Pretrial Order 44th District Court Dallas, TX

 

The deadline for discovery requests was August 6, 2007 and the Plaintiffs abided by that date and submitted their remaining requests to Defendants by this required deadline.

The Defendants, Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club (DFWMGRC) and Judy Word, submitted additional production requests, interrogatories and admissions after the deadline.  Defendants submitted to Plaintiffs on August 10, 2007, additional production requests, interrogatories, and admissions, well after the stated deadline of August 6, 2007, the date required by Judge Cortez’ Pre-trial Orders.

In addition, Plaintiffs attorney was first noticed by Defendant’s attorney on August 23, 2007 for depositions of Plaintiffs to be taken by Defendant’s attorney. These depositions were tentatively scheduled for October 16th for Alan Meyer and October 17th for Ellen Meyer.

 It clearly states in Judge Cortez’s Pre-trial Order that Discovery, all depositions and written discovery requests shall be served so that responses are due no later than the date of September 6, 2007. Trial date was set in his order for November 5, 2007. According to Judge Cortez’s original order, Discovery closed September 6, 2007, discovery requests had to be served by August 6 2007.

 Again, Defendants had from the time they received the Pre-trial Order signed by Judge Cortez on February 20, 2007 to make any discovery requests that Defendants may have had of Plaintiffs.

 However, Defendants appear to have had no problem filing a Motion to Dismiss, a Motion for Trial  Continuance, and a No-Evidence Motion well within the times specified in the Pre-trial Order, and they appeared at Mediation which was  set for  August 27, 2007.

Furthermore, Defendants filed their Motion to Compel against Plaintiffs after Defendants themselves did not fully complete Plaintiffs’ 1st Production Requests and Interrogatories.