MMI Products, Inc. v. Long

OPINION

MESSITTE, District Judge.

The Court considers Plaintiff MMI Products, Inc.’s Objection to Magistrate Judge Connelly’s Order of April 1, 2005 and Defendant Dale Long’s Opposition to same.1 The Magistrate Judge proposes to sanction MMI pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(g)(3), by ordering MMI and its counsel to pay the fees of Long’s expert because MMI and counsel failed to make reasonable inquiries into the reliability of their own expert’s report as incorporated by reference into MMI’s answers to interrogatories.

The Court SUSTAINS MMI’s objection.

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The salient facts found by the Magistrate…