Deborah Woods, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Southern Care, Inc., Defendant 3:09-CV-313-CWR-LRA Signed November 04, 2014 Counsel Nicholas W. Armstrong - PHV, Oscar M. Price - PHV, IV, Price-Armstrong, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Thomas Jason Hadley, The Hadley Law Firm, LLC, Bay Minette, AL, Vicki L. Gilliam, The Gilliam Firm, PLLC, Clinton, MS, for Plaintiffs. Stuart B. Harmon, Andrew James Stubbs, Heidelberg Harmon, PLLC, Ridgeland, MS, Kristen P. McDonald - PHV, Rebekah N. Plowman - PHV, Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant. Anderson, Linda R., United States Magistrate Judge ORDER *1 This cause is before the Court on Plaintiff's Motion to Compel [127]. Having considered the parties' filings and having heard argument of counsel, the Court rules as follows. Initially the Court notes that Plaintiffs have failed to comply with L.U. Civ. R. 37(b). The motion does not quote the request(s) at issue, followed by the specific objection and argument as to each request at issue. In their memorandum in support of the motion, Plaintiffs set out the following request as at issue: Please produce all electronic communications sent to, sent by, or received by all management level employees who are or were employed by Defendant—including emails and SMS or text messages—which reference, mention, or concern the alleged conduct or the type of conduct alleged to be at issue in this case. Management level employees includes, but is not limited to, all executive directors, clinical directors, medical directors, regional sales managers, regional clinical directors, regional vice presidents and employees or officers operating in similar roles in Mississippi from 2008 to the present. This request includes all individuals identified in your response to Interrogatory No. 3. This request applies to all communications, regardless of where they are currently stored, and includes, but is not limited to, communications stored on personal computers, handheld devices, servers, and/or on any archived or backup medium. To the extent you believe that any source of electronically stored information (ESI) is not accessible because of undue burden or cost, please identify the source by type, location, amount of ESI stored, date range, and cost of restoration. Please produce all electronic documents as image files in 300 dots per inch (DPI), Group IV, single page, TIFF images, with extracted text, except that all spreadsheets should be produced in native format. When an image file is produced, please preserve the integrity of the electronic document's contents, i.e., the original formatting of the document, its metadata and, where applicable, its revision history. Produce all family items (such as attachments) for relevant documents. Please produce documents with a Relativity compatible load file including all related metadata. [128] at 3-4. The Court concludes that this request is reasonable and that the motion to compel is granted with respect to the request set out above. The request itself is limited to emails from persons with a connection to the Mississippi operations. Moreover, the March 30, 2013 Order, which Defendants argue limits discovery, does not limit the scope of Plaintiff's inquiry and in fact specifically states that “discovery may reveal that the alleged fraud goes far beyond the four Mississippi offices about which the Relators claim knowledge of fraud.” [67] at 11. The remaining issue raised by the motion concerns search terms which may be utilized by Defendant to locate requested emails. Search terms are not part of the request itself. The parties are instructed to confer in light of the Court's ruling in attempt to resolve any remaining issue with respect to search terms. *2 SO ORDERED, this the 4th day of November, 2014.