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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

KRISTIN HARDY,

Plaintiff,

v.

C. DAVIS, et al.

Defendants.

No. 2:13-cv-0726 JAM KJN P (TEMP)

ORDER

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding with an action for alleged civil rights violations

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed three motions to compel discovery.

Plaintiff filed his first motion to compel discovery on June 25, 2015, before the defendants 

answered the operative complaint. The motion was therefore premature. Then, after the 

defendants answered, the court set the discovery schedule and, later, granted defendants an 

extension of time in which to serve discovery responses. (See ECF Nos. 56 and 63.) Before that 

extension of time expired, though, plaintiff filed another motion to compel on December 21, 

2015. That motion was also premature: defendants served plaintiff with their discovery responses 

on the same day, a compliance plaintiff acknowledges in his third motion to compel, which he 

filed January 11, 2016. (See ECF No. 67 at 4.) There, he gamely requested that the court 

“disregard” his previous motions to compel. The court will therefore deny the first and second 

motions to compel as premature and moot.

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However, to the extent plaintiff’s third motion to compel argues that defendants’ 

discovery responses are incomplete, the court will issue its ruling on that motion in a separate 

order. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motions to compel (ECF Nos. 47 and 

65) are denied.

Dated: January 27, 2016

hard0726.ord

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