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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS PRATT,

Plaintiff,

v.

CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF

PHARMACY et al., 

Defendants.

CIV S-05-0345 DFL PAN 

ORDER 

-o0oPlaintiff moves to compel further responses to discovery.

The matter is scheduled for hearing Wednesday, November 9, 2005. 

The parties have filed numerous memoranda in support of and

opposition to the motion but plaintiff has failed to file a joint

statement as required by E. D. Cal. L. R. 37-251(c). Nothing in

the parties’ papers demonstrates they have met and conferred in

an attempt to resolve this dispute, as required by Fed. R. Civ.

P. 37(a)(2)(B) and E. D. Cal. L. R. 37-251(b), nor does the court

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discern the presence of either exception to the joint statement

requirement (see E. D. Cal. L. R. 37-251(e)). The discovery

deadline is December 23, 2005.

Accordingly, the hearing on this matter is rescheduled to

Wednesday, December 7, 2005, at 9:00 a.m., in Courtroom 25. The

parties are directed to meet and confer pursuant to E. D. Cal. L.

R. 37-251(b); if that conference fails to resolve this dispute,

counsel for plaintiff shall file, no later than Friday, December

2, 2005, a joint statement conforming to the requirements of E.

D. Cal. L. R. 37-251(c).

So ordered.

Dated: November 7, 2005.

 /s/ Peter A. Nowinski 

 Peter A. Nowinski

 Magistrate Judge

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