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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GREGORY GOODS,

Plaintiff,

v.

CARLSON, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:20-cv-00416-DAD-JDP (PC)

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S AND 

DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO MODIFY 

THE SCHEDULING ORDER 

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION 

TO COMPEL AND MOTION FOR AN 

EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE AN 

AMENDED COMPLAINT

ECF Nos. 67, 68, 73, & 77

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He 

alleges that another inmate stabbed him in the face with a pen and that defendants Carlson, Illa, 

Lim, and Soltanian violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to treat his resulting injury. 

Several motions are currently pending before the court. 

On February 3, 2022, I issued a discovery and scheduling order, which ordered that any 

motion seeking leave to amend the complaint must be filed, and all discovery must be completed,

by July 22, 2022. ECF No. 52 at 5-6. Subsequently, plaintiff moved to amend the complaint; 

defendants did not oppose this motion. ECF No. 58. Accordingly, on September 23, 2022, I 

granted plaintiff’s motion and ordered him to file a second amended complaint within thirty days. 

ECF No. 66. In that same order, I granted plaintiff’s and defendants’ motions to modify the 

scheduling order. I extended the deadline to complete discovery to October 21, 2022, and the 

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deadline to file dispositive motions to January 19, 2023. Id. That same day, plaintiff filed two 

motions; the first requests a ninety-day extension to complete discovery and seeks service 

information about defendant R. Illa, ECF No. 67, and the other seeks to compel discovery 

responses from defendant Soltanian, ECF No. 68.

As for plaintiff’s first motion, I find that there is good cause to grant the requested 

extension. Accordingly, the deadline to complete discovery is extended to May 22, 2023. 

However, plaintiff’s request for service-related information about defendant Illa—also sought in 

the first motion—may present more difficult issues. Since the start of this case, plaintiff has had 

trouble serving defendant Illa. These difficulties may have resulted in some part from a spelling 

issue: defendant’s last name is spelled Ilya, not Illa. In an earlier order, I informed plaintiff that 

process directed at Illa had been returned as unserved because: “As of 11/17/2021, Robert Ilya 

(Illa) has not worked for ATC Healthcare & Folsom State Prison as of 5/5/2017. ATC Healthcare 

does not have any information about his whereabouts.” ECF No. 50. In that same order, I told 

plaintiff that he must provide information about how to locate that defendant Illa, whether it be 

through discovery, the California Public Records Act, Calif. Gov’t. Code §§ 6250, et seq., or 

other means. I also told him that if access to the required information is denied or unreasonably 

delayed, he may seek judicial intervention. Id. Because plaintiff is amending his complaint, I 

will not address service issues until I have screened the amended complaint and determined

whether service is appropriate for defendant Illa. 

As for plaintiff’s motion to compel, he argues that defendant Soltanian failed to cooperate 

in the discovery process. ECF No. 68. Defendant Soltanian filed an opposition to plaintiff’s 

motion, in which he acknowledges that he objected to each of plaintiff’s discovery requests as

“untimely” but states that he is willing to supplement his responses in light of the court’s prior 

order extending the discovery deadline. ECF No. 70 at 2. Accordingly, plaintiff’s motion to 

compel discovery is granted and defendant Soltanian is directed to respond to plaintiff’s 

discovery request within thirty days of this order. 

Plaintiff has additionally filed an unopposed motion for an extension of time to file his 

amended complaint. ECF No. 73, 76, & 78. Good cause appearing, that motion is granted; 

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plaintiff shall file his second amended complaint within thirty days of issuance of this order. 

Plaintiff is warned that his amended complaint may only include claims that are related to those 

contained in his original complaint; unrelated claims against multiple defendants belong in 

separate suits. He is also reminded that the amended complaint will supersede the current 

complaint. See Lacey v. Maricopa Cnty., 693 F. 3d 896, 907 n.1 (9th Cir. 2012) (en banc). 

Plaintiff’s amended complaint must be complete on its face without reference to the prior 

pleading. See E.D. Cal. L.R. 220.

Finally, defendants filed a motion to vacate the dispositive motion deadline and reset it to 

at least sixty days after screening of plaintiff’s second amended complaint. ECF Nos. 77 & 79

(defendant Soltanian’s joinder of that motion). Good cause appearing, that motion is granted, and 

the dispositive motions deadline is extended to July 7, 2023. 

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff’s motion to extend the discovery deadline, ECF No. 67, is granted.

2. The deadline for completing discovery, including filing all motions to compel 

discovery, is extended to May 22, 2023.

3. Plaintiff’s motion to compel discovery, ECF No. 68, is granted. 

4. Defendant Soltanian is directed to supplement his responses to plaintiff’s discovery 

request within thirty days of issuance of this order. 

5. Plaintiff’s motion for an extension of time to file an amended complaint, ECF No. 73,

is granted.

6. Plaintiff shall file his amended complaint within thirty days of issuance of this order. 

Plaintiff is warned that absent extraordinary circumstances, no further extensions will be granted.

7. Defendants’ motion to extend the dispositive motion deadline, ECF No. 77, is granted. 

8. The deadline for filing dispositive motions is extended to July 7, 2023.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 22, 2023 

JEREMY D. PETERSON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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