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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

DANA GRAY,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROMERO, et al., 

Defendants.

No. 1:13-cv-01473 DAD DLB PC

ORDER REGARING PLAINTIFF’S 

REQUEST FOR SUBPOENAS

(Document 112)

Plaintiff Dana Gray (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, 

filed this civil rights action on September 12, 2013. The action is proceeding against Defendants 

Mundunuri, Ziomek, Rebel, Romero, Comelli and Loadholt for violation of the Eighth 

Amendment and negligence.

Defendant Rebel’s motion to dismiss is pending and the discovery has opened as to the 

remaining Defendants.

On August 2, 2016, Plaintiff filed a letter requesting “subpoena forms” and asking various 

questions relating to subpoenas in general. Plaintiff attached inmate appeals and inmate requests 

for interviews that appear to be seeking copies of appeals and/or staff complaints.

Plaintiff is informed that the Clerk’s Office will issue a subpoena only upon order of the 

Court. If Plaintiff is seeking documents from Defendants, she must seek documents from via a 

request for the production of documents, not a subpoena duces tecum. Fed. R. Civ. P. 34. 

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Further, Plaintiff is placed on notice that the Court will authorize the Clerk’s Office to 

issue a subpoena duces tecum commanding a third party to produce documents only if (1) 

Plaintiff is unable to obtain the documents directly from Defendants and (2) she thereafter files a 

motion to compel which results in a determination that he is entitled to the documents but 

Defendants lack possession, custody, or control over them. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(d) (parties 

have a duty to avoid imposing undue burden or expense on person subject to subpoena and courts 

are required to enforce this duty) (quotation marks omitted); Ollier v. Sweetwater Union High 

School Dist., 768 F.3d 843, 862 (9th Cir. 2014) (district courts have “wide discretion in 

controlling discovery.”) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 26, 2016 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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