Defendant in Marriott Robocall Complaint Moves to Compel Discovery

Whisl Telecom, one of the defendants in Marriott International’s trademark infringement lawsuit to stop robocallers from allegedly impersonating Marriott telemarketers (see 2210140035), filed a motion Thursday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia to compel the hotel company to give “full and complete responses” to Whisl’s first set of discovery requests. Marriott and Whisl lawyers held a three-hour “meet-and-confer” conference Oct. 13 over Microsoft Teams involving Marriott’s “deficient discovery responses and document production,” said the motion. Marriott lawyers agreed at the conference they would let Whisl’s attorneys know by Oct. 17 if the company “intended to stand on all its objections and would not be providing any supplemental discovery responses or document production,” the motion said. “Marriott never communicated with Whisl regarding the outstanding discovery issues,” despite additional “follow-up requests,” and that necessitated the motion to compel, it said.