Marriott Motion to Compel Discovery is Denied in TCPA Trademark Case
U.S. Magistrate Judge John Anderson in Alexandria, Virginia, signed an order Friday (docket 1:21-cv-00610) denying Marriott International’s motion to compel discovery from Dynasty Marketing Group, a defendant in its novel Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit to curb telemarketing robocallers from…
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infringing Marriott trademarks by posing as Marriott agents on their calls. Marriott attorneys had complained Dynasty was unresponsive to its repeated requests. But Dynasty lawyers filed a certificate Thursday attesting to their delivery to Marriott of their responses to “the first set of interrogatories and request for production of documents,” said Anderson’s order. In denying the motion to compel without prejudice, Anderson said the motion can be filed again once the parties have had a chance to confer over Thursday’s submission.