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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 Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONALD FREEMAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

JUDGE RITCHIE, et al.,

Defendants.

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No. C-03-5440 MJJ (EMC)

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO COMPEL

(Docket No. 45)

Before the Court is Defendants’ Motion to Compel Discovery. Defendants argue that

Plaintiff has failed to respond to Interrogatories and Request for Production of Documents, with the

discovery cut-off date of March 31, 2006 approaching. Defendants claim that they are prejudiced in

their ability to file a motion for summary judgment by the May 9, 2006 deadline with Plaintiff’s

discovery responses. 

In opposition to the Motion to Compel, Plaintiff claims that he has provided the interrogatory

responses and that he “has no contact with the documents requested.” On March 27, 2006, the Court

received from Plaintiff his responses to interrogatories. Apparently, it was served on March 23,

2006. The copy of his interrogatory responses received by the Court is not signed. If he did not

provide Defendants with a signed response, he shall do so by April 7, 2006. As to the document

request, the Court has not seen any formal response.

It is hereby ordered that Defendants’ Motion to Compel is GRANTED IN PART. Plaintiff

is ordered to respond formally to Defendants’ document requests. He shall produce all responsive

documents in his possession, custody and control. If there are responsive documents over which he

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has no possession or control because of his incarceration, Plaintiff shall identify those documents

with as much detail as possible and state where they are located and why he does not have access to

them. This signed response shall be served no later than April 7, 2006. 

Plaintiff is admonished of the possibility that documents or other information responsive to

Defendants’ discovery requests that are not timely produced or disclosed when they could have been

may be subject to evidentiary or other sanctions at trial.

Defendants seek relief in the form of amending the Court’s Pre-Trial Order to give them

“ample time to defend their case.” Any such scheduling request must be made with the presiding

judge, Judge Jenkins.

As substitution of counsel has not been filed, attorney Jedediah Phillips shall forward a copy

of this order to Plaintiff pursuant to the conditions of withdrawal as counsel. L.R.11-5(b).

This order disposes of Docket No. 45.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 27, 2006

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EDWARD M. CHEN

United States Magistrate Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONALD FREEMAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

JUDGE RITCHIE, et al.,

Defendants.

___________________________________/

No. C-03-5440 MJJ (EMC)

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the U.S. District Court, Northern

District of California. On the below date, I served a true and correct copy of the attached, by placing

said copy/copies in a postage-paid envelope addressed to the person(s) listed below, by depositing

said envelope in the U.S. Mail; or by placing said copy/copies into an inter-office delivery

receptacle located in the Office of the Clerk.

Ron Freeman V-41452

P.V.S.P. E1-58 L

P.O. Box 8505

Coalinga, CA 93210

Dated: March 27, 2006 RICHARD W. WIEKING, CLERK

By: /s/ 

Leni Doyle

Deputy Clerk

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