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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

IRVIN VAN BUREN,

Plaintiff,

v.

C. WADDLE, et al., 

Defendants.

CASE NO. 1:14-cv-01894-DAD-MJS (PC)

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S 

REQUEST FOR DEPOSITION 

TRANSCRIPTS AT GOVERNMENT 

EXPENSE

(ECF No. 60)

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil 

rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The case proceeds on Plaintiff’s first 

amended complaint (“FAC”) against Defendants Neibert, Ronquillo, and Walinga for 

excessive force under the Eighth Amendment and against Defendant Waddle for 

excessive force and failure to protect under the Eighth Amendment. (ECF No. 7.)

On September 16, 2016, Plaintiff filed a motion for a Court order requiring 

Defendants to provide, at government expense, copies of deposition transcripts of 

inmate witnesses. (ECF No. 60.) Defendants have not opposed this motion, and the time 

for doing so has passed. It is submitted. Local Rule 230(l).

Plaintiff is not entitled to deposition transcripts furnished at the government’s 

expense. Allen v. Hernandez, No. 1:05-cv-00145-AWI-SMS-PC, 2008 WL 4078742 (E.D. 

Cal. Aug. 29, 2008). While a litigant who has been granted in forma pauperis status may 

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move for transcripts at the government’s expense under limited circumstances, see 28 

U.S.C. §§ 753(f) and 1915(c), those circumstances are not present here. See Tedder v. 

Odel, 890 F.2d 210, 211 (9th Cir. 1989) (“[T]he expenditure of public funds [on behalf of 

an indigent litigant] is proper only when authorized by Congress....”) (internal quotations 

omitted). If Plaintiff wishes to obtain copies of deposition transcripts for his own records, 

he must pay for them. Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(f)(3).

Accordingly, Plaintiff’s motion for deposition transcripts at the government’s 

expense is DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 12, 2016 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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