failed to timely serve his discovery requests, the defendant moved, on May 23, 2001, for a protective order seeking permission not to respond to the three separate requests. (Def.’s Mot. for a Protective Order at 1.) Magistrate Judge Robinson granted the defendant’s motion for a protective order because the thirty-day period that a served party 2450(RCL), 1997 WL 446257, at *8 (D.D.C. July 30, 1997) (denying motion to compel responses to request for admissions because request was served on the date for completion of discovery); Jarvis v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 161 F.R.D. 337, 339 (N.D.Miss.1995) (treating “requests for admission as a discovery device for purposes of establishing a deadline for service upon the other party”); Kershner v. Beloit Corp., 106 F.R.D. 498, 499 (D.Me.1985) (<HOLDING>). The text, structure and purpose of the
holding that rule 36 requests for admissions are not included within the parameters of a general cutoff for discovery in a scheduling order holding that any general deadline for completion of discovery facially applies to requests for admissions holding that requests for admissions are subject to discovery cutoff dates holding that plaintiff need not have submitted requests for admissions by the august 15 discovery motion cutoff date or by the discovery cutoff date of september 15 because requests for admissions are distinct from other general discovery devices and are not subject to discovery cutoff dates holding trial courts general charge concerning requests for admissions was a correct statement of law