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ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A REPLY ______________________________________________________________________________ Before the Court is Defendants Motion for Leave to File a Reply (D.E. # 44), filed on

Local Rule of Court 7.2(a)(1)(B), which requires actual consultation between the parties, not a mere

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attempt. Under that Rule, [t]he burden will be on counsel filing the motion to initiate the conference upon giving reasonable notice of the time, place and specific nature of the conference. Failure to comply with this rule may be deemed good grounds to deny the motion. Here, counsel for Defendants states that he attempted to contact counsel for Plaintiffs by

email on October 11, 2012, the same day Defendants filed their Motion. Counsel for Plaintiffs did

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October 11, 2012. Defendants Motion is denied without prejudice for failure to comply with the

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LIBERTY LEGAL FOUNDATION, JOHN DUMMETT, LEONARD VOLODARSKY, and CREG MARONEY,

) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) No. 12-2143-STA ) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY ) of the USA, Inc., DEMOCRATIC ) NATIONAL COMMITTEE, ) TENNESSEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ) DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, ) CHIP FORRESTER, ) ) Defendants. ) ______________________________________________________________________________

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION ______________________________________________________________________________

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not respond to the email, and to date counsel for Defendants has not amended his Motion to indicate

does not comply with Local Rules. Therefore, the Motion is DENIED without prejudice to re-file. IT IS SO ORDERED.

s/ S. Thomas Anderson S. THOMAS ANDERSON UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Date: October 15, 2012

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whether opposing counsel ever responded. The Court finds that counsels attempt at consultation