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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

Gerry Williams (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis

in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

On February 21, 2023, Plaintiff filed a motion pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 60(a), asking the Court to alter its discovery order due to a clerical mistake. Plaintiff 

asserts that the Court set the motion to compel deadline seven months prior to the non-expert 

discovery deadline. Plaintiff believes that the Court meant to set the non-expert discovery 

deadline prior to the motion to compel deadline. Plaintiff alleges that due to the clerical

mistakes regarding these deadlines, Defendants provided inadequate responses to his discovery 

requests, and he only recently filed a request for admissions based on Defendants’ inadequate 

responses to his interrogatories. Plaintiff appears to ask the Court to extend the non-expert 

discovery cutoff and the motion to compel deadline to May 14, 2023.

On February 23, 2023, Defendants filed a notice of non-opposition, stating that while 

they do not admit their responses to Plaintiff’s discovery requests are inadequate, they do not 

GERRY WILLIAMS,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

CLEMENT OGBUEHI, et al.,

 Defendants.

Case No. 1:19-cv-00855-JLT-EPG (PC)

 

ORDER RE: PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO 

ALTER DISCOVERY ORDER DUE TO 

CLERICAL MISTAKE OR OVERSIGHT

(ECF No. 71)

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oppose Plaintiff’s motion to extend the non-expert discovery cutoff and the motion to compel 

deadline to May 14, 2023.

The Court did not make a clerical error in the scheduling order. It did intend the motion 

to compel deadline to run before the deadline for non-expert discovery, in order to allow 

sufficient time to produce discovery if a motion to compel is granted. 

Nevertheless, the Court will modify the non-expert discovery deadline and the motion 

to compel deadline. As the Court is modifying these deadlines, the Court will also modify the 

dispositive motion deadline.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. The deadline for the completion of all non-expert discovery is May 14, 2023;

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2. The parties have until May 14, 2023, to file motion(s) to compel further 

discovery responses. The motion(s) should include a copy of the request(s) and 

any response to the request(s) at issue;

3. The deadline for filing dispositive motions, including motions for summary 

judgment (other than dispositive motions based on the defense of failure to 

exhaust administrative remedies), is July 14, 2023; and

4. All unmodified requirements in the Court’s June 17, 2022 scheduling order 

(ECF No. 47) remain in effect.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 23, 2023 /s/

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

1 The Court may, however, compel further discovery responses after this deadline.

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