Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel and Response to Cyberlux Corporation and Mark D. Schmidt’s Motion for Protective Order and Motion to Quash Atlantic Wave Holding’s Subpoena Duces Tecum and Deposition on Written Questions
1. On July 30, 2024, Plaintiffs filed its Petition to Enforce Foreign Judgment, of its approximately $1.5 million judgment rendered in Virginia against Defendants ("Texas Judment").
DISTIL analysis
- Plaintiffs seek to enforce $1.5 million Virginia judgment against Cyberlux Corporation and Mark D. Schmidt in Texas
- Defendants' counsel allegedly misrepresented that deponents Neil Whiteley and Phillip Tucker had minimal knowledge of Cyberlux operations
- Whiteley is actually Senior Vice President and former owner of acquired business, contradicting representation
- Plaintiffs agreed to 30-minute deposition limit based on misrepresentation that witnesses were not executives
- Court denied motion to vacate judgment and imposed 30-day execution stay but allowed discovery to proceed
- Plaintiffs request full 6-hour depositions per Texas Rules and production of financial documents
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7 pages · 10242 charactersCAUSE NO. 2024-48085
ATLANTIC WAVE HOLDINGS, LLC and SECURE COMMUNITY, LLC,
Plaintiff/Judgment-Creditor
V.
CYBERLUX CORPORATION and MARK D. SCHMIDT, Individually, §
§ IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
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§ § HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS
Defendant/Judgment-Debtors § 129TH JUDICIAL COURT
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL AND RESPONSE TO CYBERLUX CORPORATION AND MARK D. SCHMIDT'S MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER AND MOTION TO QUASH ATLANTIC WAVE HOLDING'S SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM AND DEPOSITION ON WRITTEN QUESTIONS
TO THE HONORABLE JUDGE OF SAID COURT:
Unfallical Copy Office Martin Bulunan strict Cler
COME NOW Plaintiff Atlantic Wave Holdings, LLC and Secure Community, LLC, ("hereinafter collectively "Plaintiffs") files this Motion to Compel and Response to Defendants Cyberlux Corporation and Mark D. Schmidt's Motion for Protective Order and Motion to Quash Atlantic Wave Holdings, LLC and Secure Community, LLC's Subpoena Duces Tecum and Deposition on Written Questions, and in support thereof, Plaintiffs would respectfully show the Court the following:
efficiency, and for the same reasons, Plaintiffs further agreed to limit its Subpoena Duces Tecum on the Whiteley Depo Subpoena and Tucker Depo Subpoena.
make a "complete response" to a discovery request. TEX. R. CIV. P. 193.1. A trial court may compel a party to respond adequately to discovery. TEX. R. CIV. P. 215. In the trial court, the party resisting discovery bears the burden of proving the request lies outside the guidelines described by the rules and the supreme court. See Tex.R. Civ. P. 193.4(a). In re Rogers, 200 S. W 3d 318, 321- 22 (Tex. App .- Dallas 2006, no pet.) (financial information as to holding comprising the bulk of trusts assets was discoverable in beneficiary action).
hamstrung limited to an agreement which is based on the misunderstanding or misrepresentation that the deponents know very little about the Defendant Cyberlux. As such, Plaintiffs request that Defendants be compelled to present party witnesses Neil Whitely and Phillip Tucker, in the next fourteen (14) days, for remote deposition, and to overrule all objections to the documents requests in Plaintiffs' subpoena duces tecum, and produce documents within ten (10) days, and for such further relief to which Plaintiffs are entitled.
Respectfully submitted
LAW FIRM OF SHAWN M. GRADY, PLLC
By: /s/ Shawn M. Grady Shawn M. Grady SBN 24076411 shawn@gradycollectionlaw.com 2100 West Loop South, Ste. 805 Houston, Texas 77027 Phone (832) 692-4542 Fax (832) 565-1796
ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFFS
As described in this motion, Plaintiffs' counsel Mr. Grady and Defendants' counsel, Mr. Pennetti conferred by phone on or about August 21, 2024, and subsequently by email. Defendants are opposed to this motion.
/s/ Shawn M. Grady Shawn M. Grady
eden cial Copy Office of Marilyst Burgess District CierNe
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the above and foregoing instrument has been forwarded to all known counsel of record in accordance with the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure on this the 8th day of November 2024.
Unofficial Copy Office of Marilyn Burgess District Clerk
/s/ Shawn M. Grady Shawn M. Grady
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Shawn Grady on behalf of Shawn Grady Bar No. 24076411 shawn@gradycollectionlaw.com Envelope ID: 94119891
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Filing Description: Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel and Response to Cyberlux Corporation and Mark D Schmidt Motion for Protective Order and Motion to Quash Plaintiff Subpoena Duces Tecum Status as of 11/11/2024 12:29 PM CST
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Shawn Grady
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Sandra Meiners
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Laurie DeBardeleben
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Bernadette Martin
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Katharine Clark
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Alex Pennetti
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Lena Brasher
Ibrasher@thompsoncoburn.com
11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Frankie Huff
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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Hannah Fischer
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11/8/2024 6:25:40 PM
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