Zuffa has responded to Plaintiffs’ letter to the Court requesting a status conference on outstanding discovery issues. In its letter to the Court, they clarify issues asserted for the Plaintiffs and indicate that they are willing to extend the fact discovery deadline until June 15, 2017 but no new fact discovery requests.
The fact discovery deadline was May 1, 2017. This would have been the last date in which Plaintiffs would have been able to obtain documents from Zuffa as well as non-parties (e.g. Bellator). Notably, a Motion to Compel documents from Zinkin Entertainment is set for June 23, 2017, well past the deadline.
The Zuffa letter states that it has turned over 6,800 texts from two cellular phones used by Dana White. Plaintiffs claimed that White had four phone numbers and likely four phones.
Zuffa asserts that it is willing to extend the fact discovery deadline but not 60 days, nor open it up to new discovery. They contend, citing the letter Plaintiffs sent to Bjorn Rebney, that Plaintiffs have performed extensive discovery.
Zuffa's Response to Ps Statement by JASONCRUZ206 on Scribd
The status conference is set for May 18, 2017.
Payout Perspective:
Using your own words against you hurts and this is what Zuffa attempts to do with the letter Plaintiffs sent to Bjorn Rebney in order for him to “cease and desist” from going forward with MMAAA. The letter writing fight should be settled on May 18th and likely both sides will not be happy. But, Zuffa’s letter advises the Court that Plaintiffs had ample time to obtain discovery while still seeming reasonable in proposing an extended date for discovery.
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