Mich. Judge Stays Motion to Compel Discovery Deadline, Pending Mediation

U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy for Eastern Michigan in Detroit signed a stipulated order Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-12597) staying plaintiff Mark Dobronski’s deadline for responding to SelectQuote’s March 29 motion to compel discovery responses from him. Dobronski and SelectQuote are attempting to resolve their Telephone Consumer Protection Act dispute through a mediation that’s scheduled for Thursday, said the order. The parties are to notify the court by May 2 if the issues between them have been resolved in the mediation and the motion to compel is withdrawn, or, lacking a resolution, if Dobronski is required to file a response, it said. Pro se plaintiff Dobronski alleges that SelectQuote besieged him with telemarketing calls despite his number having been listed on the national do not call registry. SelectQuote’s motion to compel alleges that Dobronski’s discovery responses have been vague and full of boilerplate objections, and it contends that Dobronski’s “tactics of evading discovery and forcing motions like this are part of his strategy” (see 2404010018).