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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ELLIOT EUGENE

ROLLINGS-PLEASANT,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-03-0228 MCE PAN P

vs.

DEUEL VOCATIONAL 

INSTITUTION, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a prisoner without counsel, moves to modify the February 21, 2006,

scheduling order to extend the time for discovery.

A schedule may be modified only upon a showing of good cause. Fed. R. Civ. P.

16(b). Good cause exists when the moving party demonstrates he cannot meet the deadline

despite exercising due diligence. Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th

Cir. 1992). Pursuant to the schedule, discovery closed June 16, 2006. Plaintiff asserts he could

not timely complete discovery because he is confined in the security housing unit, he proceeds

without counsel and he received defendants’ responses to requests for admission on May 31,

2006. He asserts a need to serve interrogatories on defendants but he does not explain what

interrogatories he could propound based on the May 31, 2006, responses that he could not have

made before receiving the responses. 

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 Plaintiff fails to demonstrate he was unable to meet the deadline despite due

diligence.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED plaintiff’s June 15, 2006, motion to

amend the schedule is denied.

DATED: August 17, 2006.

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\ roll0228.dny modif sched (2)

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