Cahoo v. SAS Analytics Inc.
United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division
August 30, 2019
PATTI JO CAHOO, KRISTEN MENDYK, KHADIJA COLE, HYON PAK, and MICHELLE DAVISON, Plaintiffs,
v.
SAS INSTITUTE INC., FAST ENTERPRISES LLC, CSG GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, STEPHEN GESKEY, SHEMIN BLUNDELL, DORIS MITCHELL, DEBRA SINGLETON, JULIE A. McMURTRY, and SHARON MOFFET-MASSEY, Defendants.
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT FAST'S MOTION TO COMPEL
COMPLIANCE WITH SUBPOENA
DAVID
M. LAWSON UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Defendant
FAST Enterprises, LLC served a subpoena on November 19, 2018
on the State of Michigan for eight categories of documents
that are relevant to the plaintiffs' claims in this case.
Having received very little in response, FAST filed the
present motion to compel production of the documents. The
Court heard oral argument on August 29, 2019 and ruled from
the bench that prompt production of documents is required.
The
subpoena was directed to “the State of Michigan,
” although the focus of many of the requests is on the
Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), a department of
the State whose employees are defendants in this case. The
subpoena sought production of documents responsive to the
following eight categories:
1. All Communications and Documents from the Microsoft
Outlook/Exchange accounts of any FAST, CSG, or SAS employee
who was given a Michigan.gov email address;
2. All files (including Communications and Documents) from
the local hard drives (or images thereof) of any State of
Michigan computers given to any FAST, CSG, or SAS employee to
use for purposes of the Project;
3. All files (including Communications and Documents) located
on the Project Sharepoint sites;
4. All files (including Communications and Documents) located
in the SQR, SQT, SQD and FCR databases for the Project;
5. All Communications and Documents related to the Project
which are located on any Agency shared drives (this request
specifically excludes all data within the MiDAS system);
6. All Communications and Documents from Microsoft
Outlook/Exchange, the local hard drives, and the personal
records and files of any State of Michigan employee which are
related to the Project, including:
a. All Communications and Documents related to the
Agency's Request for Proposals for the Project, including
all responses received;
b. All Communications and Documents related to the
Agency's decision to implement auto-adjudication;
c. All Communications and Documents related to the
Agency's development of requirements and parameters for
the Project, including the non-monetary determinations
aspects of the Project;
d. All Communications and Documents related to the
Agency's hiring of Defendants SAS Institute Inc., FAST
Enterprises, LLC, and CSG Government Solutions (the
“Corporate Defendants”);
e. All Communications and Documents related to the respective
roles of each of the Corporate Defendants and the ...