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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

JONATHAN DAVIS,

Plaintiff,

v.

K. KELLEY, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:22-cv-0773 DB P

ORDER

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 

U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff claims that he has received inadequate medical care in violation of his 

rights. Presently before the court is plaintiff’s request for subpoenas. (ECF No. 24.)

Plaintiff requests that he be issued two subpoenas “to be directed to RICHARD CASTRO, 

Chief Executive Officer and SHEELA KAPRE, Chief Medical Officer, who are both employees 

at the San Joaquin General Hospital, and who are both members of the Hospital Administration 

Team.” (ECF No. 24 at 1.) He seeks the names of members of the Medical Malpractice 

Committee, “who met and conferred regarding Plaintiff’s ‘poor surgical outcome’ of the surgery 

Plaintiff underwent on August 17, 2020.” (Id.) Plaintiff further states that he has “made multiple 

requests, both written and oral, to provided [sic] with the documents mentioned, and made the 

same types of requests for the names of the Malpractice Review Committee’s members, to no 

avail. Hospital employees are the ones who have informed Plaintiff that this Committee in fact 

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does exist, but these same employees refuse to provide Plaintiff with the names of the Medical 

Malpractice Review Committee.” (Id. at 2.)

By order dated May 8, 2023, the undersigned advised plaintiff of the requirements for 

obtaining a subpoena and denied the request in part because the undersigned could not determine 

whether the allegations against the “John Doe actors at San Joaquin General Hospital” would 

state a cognizable claim because there was no complaint pending before the court. (ECF No. 23 

at 2, 3-4.) Plaintiff has not yet submitted an amended complaint. Thus, the undersigned cannot 

determine whether the allegations against these unnamed individuals would state a claim. 

Accordingly, the request will be denied without prejudice.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s request for two subpoenas (ECF No. 24) is 

denied without prejudice. 

Dated: July 31, 2023

DB:12

DB/DB Prisoner Inbox/Civil Rights/R/davi0773.subp

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