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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ISAAC RIGGS,

Plaintiff,

v.

R.T.C. GROUNDS, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 13-cv-05864-PJH 

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO 

COMPEL

Re: Dkt. No. 56

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, proceeds with a civil rights action alleging that defendant 

Cahlander utilized excessive force against him. Plaintiff has filed a motion to compel five 

document requests. Defendant has opposed the motion.

A party may bring a motion to compel discovery when another party has failed to 

respond or respond adequately to a discovery request. Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(a)(3). A party 

may “obtain discovery regarding any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s 

claim or defense” but “for good cause, the court may order discovery of any matter 

relevant to the subject matter involved in the action.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b). As the 

moving party, plaintiff bears the burden of informing the court which discovery requests 

are the subject of his motion to compel and for each disputed response, why defendants’ 

objections are not justified or why the response provided is deficient.

Plaintiff’s motion simply lists the five requests but fails to address defendant’s 

responses to the requests and why the responses were deficient. Defendant’s opposition 

includes the responses and various correspondences between the parties and copies of 

the documents that were provided. Plaintiff has not filed a reply to the opposition.

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Plaintiff seeks the following discovery:

1. Policy for shower procedures

2. Policy for razor exchange.

3. Unit log for daily activities for February 7, 2012.

4. Rules violation report issued to plaintiff regarding the incident.

5. Personal records for all complaints for use of force or misconduct for the 

past seven years.

Defendant states that discovery for the first four requests were provided. Plaintiff 

does not dispute this assertion and a review of defendant’s motion demonstrates the 

discovery was provided. Defendant has also provided discovery regarding complaints of 

use of force against Cahlander. To the extent plaintiff seeks private information from 

defendant’s personal records he has failed to specifically identify what he seeks and why 

it is required. Because defendant has provided the discovery requested, the motion to 

compel (Docket No. 56) is DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 18, 2015

________________________

PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ISAAC RIGGS,

Plaintiff,

v.

R.T.C. GROUNDS, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 13-cv-05864-PJH 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on September 18, 2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by 

placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Isaac Riggs ID: E-26630

Corcoran State Prison 3A Yard 3 building cell 108

P.O. Box 3461

Corcoran, CA 93212 

Dated: September 18, 2015

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Nichole Peric, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

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