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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

NATHAN JEROME ELLIS,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-03-1938 LKK CMK P

vs.

MIKE KNOWLES, et al.,

Defendants.

 / ORDER

Plaintiff brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This

proceeding was referred to the undersigned by Local Rule 72-302 by the authority of 28 U.S.C. §

636(b)(1). Plaintiff has filed a motion to compel discovery. (Doc. 49.) 

Plaintiff seeks to compel further responses to his requests for production of

documents. Plaintiff states that defendants responses to his requests for production were

unbound, requiring plaintiff to ascertain the order of the documents. Plaintiff also states that

defendants’ responses were incomplete, unresponsive, and evasive. He states that the “responses

are designed to mislead a reviewer into believing that the production response is overwhelmingly

responsive to plaintiff’s request....[however,] [n]othing is further from the truth.” (Doc. 49:4-7.)

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Rule 37 provides a mechanism for enforcing discovery; it allows sanctions against

parties who unjustifiably resist discovery requests. See Wright,. Miller and Marcus: Federal

Practice and Procedure § 2281 (2d ed. 1994). Plaintiff has included both his requests for

production and defendants’ responses as exhibits to his motion to compel. After reviewing both,

the court cannot conclude that defendants’ responses were unresponsive. 

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT plaintiff’s motion to compel (doc. 49) is

denied. 

DATED: July 13, 2006.

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CRAIG M. KELLISON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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