Fields v. Castrillo

Filing 30

ORDER AND AMENDED DISCOVERY AND SCHEDULING ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Allison Claire on 03/22/18 GRANTING 28 Motion for Extension of time. Defendant's responses served 03/21/18 are deemed timely. Plaintiff's motion to compel disc overy and for sanctions 27 is DENIED as moot. The deadlines for discovery and dispositive motions set forth in the Discovery and Scheduling Order filed 12/27/17 19 at 5, paragraphs 6-7 are extended by 1 month as follows: The parties may conduct discovery until May 25, 2018. Any motions necessary tocompel discovery shall be filed by that date. All requests for discovery pursuant to Fed. R.Civ. P. 31, 33, 34 or 36 shall be served not later than sixty days prior to that date. All pretrial motions, except motions to compel discovery, shall be filed on or before August 24, 2018. Motions shall be briefed in accordance with paragraph 8 of this courts order filed October 19, 2017.(Plummer, M) Modified on 3/23/2018 (Plummer, M).

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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CARLTON FIELDS,

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No. 2:17-cv-1068 AC P

Plaintiff,
v.

ORDER and

E.F. CASTRILLO,
Defendant.

AMENDED DISCOVERY AND
SCHEDULING ORDER

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Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis with this civil rights

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action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On March 13, 2018, plaintiff filed a motion to compel

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sole defendant Castrillo to respond to plaintiff’s discovery requests served January 11, 2018, and

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for monetary sanctions. See ECF No. 27. On March 21, 2018, defendant’s counsel filed a

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statement of non-opposition to plaintiff’s motion, acknowledging that defendant’s responses were

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due on February 28, 2018, but that counsel had inadvertently failed to timely prepare and serve

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the responses because she was in trial at the time. See ECF No. 29; see also ECF No. 28 at 2-3

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(counsel’s declaration). Counsel avers that when she received plaintiff’s motion on March 14,

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2018, she immediately contacted defendant and the Litigation Coordinator at the California

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Medical Facility to obtain the requested documents and prepare defendant’s responses. ECF No.

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28 at 3, ¶ 12. The responses were served on plaintiff on March 21, 2018, concurrently with

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defense counsel’s instant request for an extension of time nunc pro tunc to respond to plaintiff’s
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discovery requests and for the denial of plaintiff’s discovery motion as moot. Id.

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For good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

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1. Defendant’s request for extended time to respond to plaintiff’s discovery requests

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served January 11, 2018, ECF No. 28, is GRANTED nunc pro tunc; defendant’s responses served

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March 21, 2018, are deemed timely.

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2. Plaintiff’s motion to compel discovery and for sanctions, ECF No. 27, is DENIED as
moot.
3. The deadlines for discovery and dispositive motions set forth in the Discovery and
Scheduling Order filed December 27, 2017, see ECF No. 19 at 5, ¶¶ 6-7, are each extended by
one month and modified as follows:
6. The parties may conduct discovery until May 25, 2018. Any motions necessary to
compel discovery shall be filed by that date. All requests for discovery pursuant to Fed. R.
Civ. P. 31, 33, 34 or 36 shall be served not later than sixty days prior to that date.

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7. All pretrial motions, except motions to compel discovery, shall be filed on or
before August 24, 2018. Motions shall be briefed in accordance with paragraph 8 of this
court’s order filed October 19, 2017.
IT SO ORDERED.
DATED: March 22, 2018

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