Khardy Enterprises LLC et al v. NCR Atelos Corporation et al

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
KHARDY ENTERPRISES LLC,
et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
NCR ATELOS CORPORATION,
et al.,
Defendants.
Case No. 24-12797
Honorable Gershwin A. Drain
Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Stafford
ORDER TO MEET AND CONFER
Defendants move to compel plaintiffs’ responses to interrogatories
and requests for production. ECF No. 25. The Honorable Gershwin A.
Drain referred the motion to the undersigned for hearing and determination
under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). ECF No. 28. The Court afforded the
parties ample time to resolve the discovery disputes, but issues remain.
ECF No. 51.
As stated during a status conference held on October 31, 2025, the
parties must meet and confer about the unresolved issues raised in the
motion to compel and defendants’ supplemental brief. ECF No. 25; ECF
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No. 51. 	The parties must carefully read and follow the order to meet
and confer entered in August 2025. ECF No. 34.
The Court will hold an in-person hearing about defendants’ motion to
compel on December 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. The parties must meet and
confer in good faith in person or by video as required by E.D. Mich. LR
37.1. Following the meeting, and by December 1, 2025, the parties must
file a joint list of unresolved issues that addresses the relevance and
proportionality of the disputed discovery requests and that comports with
the guidance set out in the Court’s August 2025 meet-and-confer order.
ECF No. 34.
If the parties do not meaningfully meet and confer, or if the joint list of
unresolved issues does not comply with this order, the Court will order the
parties to repeat the meet-and-confer process. If the parties resolve all
issues raised by the motion, they must submit a stipulation and order to
cancel the hearing.
s/Elizabeth A. Stafford
ELIZABETH A. STAFFORD
United States Magistrate Judge
Dated: November 4, 2025
NOTICE TO PARTIES ABOUT OBJECTIONS
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Within 14 days of being served with this order, any party may file
objections with the assigned district judge. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a). The
district judge may sustain an objection only if the order is clearly erroneous
or contrary to law. 28 U.S.C. § 636. 	“When an objection is filed to a
magistrate judge’s ruling on a non-dispositive motion, the ruling
remains in full force and effect unless and until it is stayed by the
magistrate judge or a district judge.” 	E.D. Mich. LR 72.2.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
The undersigned certifies that this document was served on counsel
of record and any unrepresented parties via the Court’s ECF System to
their email or First Class U.S. mail addresses disclosed on the Notice of
Electronic Filing on November 4, 2025.
s/Davon Allen
DAVON ALLEN
Case Manager
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