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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 

JOHN PHILIP MONCRIEF, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF 

CORRECTIONS AND 

REHABILITATION, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:12-cv-0414 MCE AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding through counsel with a civil rights action pursuant 

to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

 On March 19, 2014, the court heard arguments on defendants’ motion to dismiss the 

second amended complaint and conducted a case management conference. ECF No. 40. During 

the case management conference, the court expressed concern over the previous management of 

the case as if it had been brought by an inmate in pro per, and the resulting lack of disclosures and 

discovery that had taken place up to that date. ECF No. 42 at 3-4. The parties were instructed to 

“meet and confer, develop a discovery plan, propose a schedule for the litigation, and begin 

discovery expeditiously and with a focus on the actions and identities of the putative Doe 

defendants.” Id. at 4. 

Upon adoption of the findings and recommendations, a scheduling order was issued. ECF 

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No. 46. The deadline for filing a motion to amend the complaint and proposed amended 

complaint was set for June 20, 2014, with non-expert fact discovery concluding on January 14, 

2015. Id. Expert discovery was to conclude by March 25, 2015, and dispositive motions filed by 

April 29, 2015. Id. Plaintiff requested and received several extensions of time to file a third 

amended complaint which substituted named defendants for Doe defendants and the amended 

complaint was ultimately filed on January 15, 2015. ECF No. 55. On February 19, 2015, 

defendants filed an answer and a motion to partially dismiss the amended complaint for failure to 

state a claim. ECF No. 62. On September 1, 2015, the District Judge filed an order adopting the 

findings and recommendations granting the motion to dismiss in part. ECF No. 72. Now that 

discovery has closed and the scope of the third amended complaint has been narrowed, the court 

will re-set the dispositive motion deadline. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. The parties may file dispositive motions no later than January 6, 2016, and noticed to 

be heard no later than February 3, 2016. 

2. Trial in this matter remains scheduled for August 1, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. in courtroom 7 

before the Honorable Morrison C. England, Jr., with pretrial deadlines as set forth in the February 

4, 2015 minute order (ECF No. 56). 

DATED: October 6, 2015 

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