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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 

WALTER HOWARD WHITE, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SMYERS, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:12-cv-2868 MCE AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff has filed a “Supplemental Statement to Court’s Order of April 23, 2015,” again 

seeking to stay his further deposition. See ECF No. 158. Plaintiff again asserts that his “urgent 

medical needs” preclude reconvening his deposition. This court previously considered plaintiff’s 

medical needs and side effects to medications, together with his other allegations, as a motion for 

protective order to deny or postpone his further deposition, and denied the motion. For the 

reasons previously stated, see ECF No. 153 at 5-8, the court will not revisit these matters, which 

have been repeatedly and thoroughly addressed.1 

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 As this court has previously noted, plaintiff’s lengthy and numerous typed filings 

controvert his complaints of spinal pain so severe as to preclude his further deposition. The 

preliminary injunctive relief that plaintiff now seeks – that defendants provide plaintiff with 

necessary medical care, including surgery, prior to reconvening his deposition – is inconsistent 

with the reasonable inference drawn from plaintiff’s copious, cogent and typed filings that he is 

capable of extended concentration and maintaining an upright posture. Plaintiff’s current demand 

for surgery is premature as it mirrors his request for permanent injunctive relief should he prevail 

on the merits of this action. Moreover, as the court has repeatedly noted, numerous 

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Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. Plaintiff’s “Supplemental Statement,” ECF No. 158, construed as a further request for 

protective order precluding plaintiff’s further deposition, is DENIED, for the reasons previously 

stated by the court, see ECF No. 153 at 5-8, 9. 

2. Subject to the conditions previously established by the court, see id. at 7-8, defendants 

shall together schedule plaintiff’s further deposition on one day between August 31, 2015 and 

October 16, 2015, and shall inform the court of such date within five days of its scheduling. 

DATED: August 5, 2015 

 

 

accommodations were previously made to support plaintiff’s medical and medication needs 

during his initial deposition, and such accommodations remain available to plaintiff when he 

participates in his further deposition. See ECF No. 153 at 7-8. 

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