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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GEORGE E. JACOBS, IV,

Plaintiff,

v.

A.C. QUINONES, et al.,

Defendants.

1:10-cv-02349-AWI-JLT (PC)

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' 

MOTION AND MODIFYING THE 

DISCOVERY AND SCHEDULING ORDER 

NUNC PRO TUNC 

(Doc. 70)

Dispositive Motion Deadline: October 31, 2014

Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se in a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. '

1983. This action is proceeding on the First Amended Complaint for Plaintiff's Eighth 

Amendment claims against Defendants Does #1-3, Pruitt, Magana, and Davis for deprivation of 

basic necessities; against Defendants Cogdill, Scaiffe, Quinones and Davis for excessive force; 

and against Defendants Bardonnex and Williams for depriving Plaintiff of yard time. (Docs. 11, 

17, 19, 24.) 

There have been numerous discovery disputes in this action which have resulted in 

extensions for responding to discovery and issuance of two subpoenas duces tecum. Defendants 

filed a motion to modify the discovery and scheduling order on July 7, 2014. (Doc. 70.) 

Defendants were to serve their responses to Plaintiff's propounded discovery as delineated 

in the order on Defendants' motion for protective order (Doc. 61) by June 30, 2014 which was 

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recently extended to August 8, 2014 (Doc. 73). Plaintiff was given thirty days after service of 

Defendants' responses to file a motion to compel further responses to deficient responses from 

Defendants (Doc. 61), which is properly extended to September 7, 2014 (parallel to the extension 

given to Defendants to serve their responses). These extensions surpass the current July 11, 2014 

dispositive motion filing deadline, rendering modification appropriate. 

Given the above extensions of discovery deadlines in this case, good cause exists to 

extend the dispositive motion filing deadline.1 

Accordingly, based on the foregoing, it is HEREBY ORDERED nunc pro tunc that the 

Discovery and Scheduling order is modified in part as follows: 

1. Defendants SHALL serve their responses to Plaintiff's propounded discovery as 

delineated in the order granting in part Defendants' motion for protective order 

which issued on May 16, 2014 (Doc. 61) on or before August 8, 2014; 

2. Plaintiff has 30 days from the date Defendants serve their discovery responses, on 

or before September 7, 2014, to file a motion to compel if he has a legal basis on 

which to conclude the responses are deficient; 

3. Any dispositive motions SHALL be filed no later than October 31, 2014; 

4. A request for an extension of a deadline set in this order must be filed on or 

before the expiration of the deadline in question; and

5. Extensions of time will only be granted on a showing of good cause.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 26, 2014 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

1 The discovery and scheduling order is modified only as specifically delineated in this order. Nothing in this order 

should be construed to allow either side to propound additional discovery or raise any discovery disputes beyond 

those addressed in this order and the order which issued on May 16, 2014 (Doc. 61). 

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