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SelectQuote Seeks to Compel Plaintiff to Produce 'Sufficient' Discovery Responses

SelectQuote seeks an order compelling Mark Dobronski to provide “sufficient responses” to SelectQuote’s discovery requests, said the defendant's motion Friday (docket 2:23-cv-12597) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit. Pro se plaintiff Dobronski alleges that SelectQuote besieged him…

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with telemarketing calls despite his number having been listed on the national do not call registry. SelectQuote also seeks an order requiring Dobronski to reimburse it for all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred in bringing the motion to compel, plus any other relief the court deems “just and proper,” it said. Drobonski’s 13-page production of documents is “almost all redacted, illegible or nonresponsive,” said the motion. Dobronski also has claimed to have audio recordings of the calls that are the subject of this suit, but won’t produce them because they are in a storage facility in either Michigan or Florida, it said. His responses to the “propounded interrogatories” are vague and full of boilerplate objections, “and his responses to the requests to admit are knowingly false," it said. SelectQuote has attempted to resolve these issues with Dobronski, but his “tactics of evading discovery and forcing motions like this are part of his strategy,” it said. He “abuses the discovery process,” necessitating motions like this “to drive up the costs of litigation” and force entities like SelectQuote into a settlement, it said.