L SQUARED INDUSTRIES, INC.
v.
NAUTILUS INSURANCE COMPANY

M.D. Fla. | 2021-12-28
No. 3:21-cv-1104
2014 WL 2527162 District Court, M.D. Florida (2021) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court

________________________________________________________________________ Order The plaintiff moves to strike defenses from the answer. Doc. 16. The plaintiff fails to state whether its counsel conferred with the defendants’ counsel, whether the parties agree on the resolution of the motion, and, if opposed, the means by which the conference occurred. The Court denies the motion without prejudice to filing a motion that complies with Local Rule 3.01(g). In deciding whether to file another motion to strike, counsel is directed to the authority in Moore v. R. Craig Hemphill & Assocs., No. 3:13-cv-900-BJD- PDB, 2014 WL 2527162, at *1 (M.D. Fla. May 6, 2014), including 5C Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 1380 (3d ed. 2004), which explains that courts generally disfavor motions to strike and consider most of them to be time wasters because of the stringent standard for striking and the drastic nature of altering a pleading.

Ordered in Jacksonville, Florida, on December 28, 2021.

PATRICIA D. BARKSDALE

United States Magistrate Judge


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  • …fenses are subject to the heightened pleading standard of Rule 8(a), as set forth in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009). See, e.g. Moore v. R. Craig Hemphill Assocs., No. 3:13-CV-900-J-39, 2014 WL 2527162, at *2 (M.D. Fla. May 6, 2014); see also Adams v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 3:11-CV-337-J-37, 2011 WL 2938467, at *2-3 (M.D. Fla. July 21, 2011). Others have held that affirmative defenses are subject to less stringent standard under Rules 8(b…
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  • L Squared Indus., Inc. v. Nautilus Ins. Co., 2014 WL 2527162 (M.D. Fla. 2021)
    …nies the motion without prejudice to filing a motion that complies with Local Rule 3.01(g). In deciding whether to file another motion to strike, counsel is directed to the authority in Moore v. R. Craig Hemphill & Assocs., No. 3:13-cv-900-BJD- PDB, 2014 WL 2527162, at *1 (M.D. Fla. May 6, 2014), including 5C Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 1380 (3d ed. 2004), which explains that courts generally disfavor motions to strike and consider most of them to be time wasters be…
  • …BIH Corp., No. 2:10- cv-577, 2013 WL 1212769, at *1 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 25, 2013). Other courts find that the less stringent standard of Rule 8(b) and (c) applies to affirmative defenses. See, e.g., Moore v. R. Craig Hemphill & Assocs., No. 3:13-CV-900, 2014 WL 2527162, at *2 (M.D. Fla. May 6, 2014); Jirau v. Camden Dev., Inc., No. 8:11-cv-73, 2011 WL 2981818, at *2 (M.D. Fla. July 22, 2011). Given the lack of consensus in the Eleventh Circuit, the plain language of Rule 8, the practical difficulty of collecting…
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