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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 

WADE THORNTON, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

D. DAHLE, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:14-cv-1039 MCE AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff is a former state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 

42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the court is the defendants’ motion to compel plaintiff’s 

attendance at his deposition, for sanctions, and to modify the scheduling order. ECF No. 23. 

 The court will withhold ruling on the motion to compel and for sanctions until the motion 

is fully briefed, but will grant the request to modify the scheduling order. The July 7, 2015 

discovery deadline and September 19, 2015 dispositive motion deadline will be vacated and re-set 

upon resolution of the motion to compel. The court will determine whether a hearing on the 

motion to compel is necessary once the motion is fully briefed. 

Additionally, since it appears plaintiff has been released from custody and he has not paid 

the filing fee, within thirty days from the filing date of this order he must either pay the filing fee 

in full or submit a non-prisoner application to proceed in forma pauperis, which the Clerk will be 

directed to provide. Failure to comply with this order will result in a recommendation that this 

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action be dismissed without prejudice. 

 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

 1. Plaintiff shall have fourteen days from the filing of this order file and serve an 

opposition or notice of non-opposition to the defendants’ motion to compel and for sanctions. 

 2. Defendants’ motion to compel and for sanctions and request for a hearing on the 

motion (ECF No. 23) will be considered once briefing is complete. 

 3. Defendants’ motion to modify the scheduling order (ECF No. 23) is granted. The July 

7, 2015 discovery deadline and September 29, 2015 pretrial motion deadline set by this court’s 

March 18, 2015 order (ECF No. 22) are hereby vacated. The deadlines will be re-set upon 

resolution of the motion to compel. 

 4. Within thirty days of the filing of this order, plaintiff must either pay the filing fee in 

full or submit a non-prisoner application to proceed in forma pauperis. Failure to comply with 

this order will result in a recommendation that this action be dismissed without prejudice. 

 5. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send petitioner a copy of the in forma pauperis 

form used by this district. 

DATED: May 26, 2015 

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