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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RAHAT YAQUB, by and through his 

Guardian Ad Litem, SADIA YAQUB,

Plaintiff,

v.

JACOB PAYNTER, et al., 

Defendants.

Case No. 1:23-cv-01482-NODJ-EPG

ORDER APPROVING STIPULATION FOR A 

LIMITED STAY OF FACT DISCOVERY 

RELATED TO INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS 

JACOB PAYNTER AND ARTURO GAONASANTILLAN

(ECF No. 18)

On January 11, 2024, the parties filed a joint stipulation requesting a limited stay of 

discovery as to Defendants Jacob Paynter and Arturo Gaona-Santillan. (ECF No. 18). According 

to the parties’ stipulation, Defendants Paynter and Gaona-Santillan “are currently pending 

criminal charges in the Superior Court for the County of Merced arising out of the same incident, 

acts and/or omissions alleged in Plaintiff’s Complaint for Damages.” (Id., p. 1). The state criminal 

case “is currently set for jury trial on May 14, 2024.” (Id.) Further, “[t]he parties have met and 

conferred in an effort to balance the Fifth Amendment Rights of the Individual Defendants with 

Plaintiff’s desire to proceed expeditiously with fact discovery” and “have utilized the five factors 

set out in Keating v. Office of Thrift Supervision, 45 F. 3d 322, 324 (9th Cir. 1995) during its 

evaluation of the stay requested[.]” (Id., pp. 1-2). The parties request that “fact discovery directed 

to the Individual Defendants, as well as the disclosures required by Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 26” be 

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stayed until the state criminal cases have resolved. (Id., p. 2). The parties have further stipulated 

that “should one of the criminal cases resolve but the other continue, the stay will be lifted for the 

Individual Defendant whose case resolved but remain in place for the Individual Defendant 

whose case continues until that remaining criminal case is resolved.” (Id., p. 2). 

Based on the parties’ stipulation, the Court will GRANT the parties’ request (ECF No. 18) 

for a limited stay as follows:

1. Fact discovery (including initial disclosures) directed to individual Defendants Paynter 

and Gaona-Santillan is hereby stayed until the pending state criminal cases have resolved. 

2. The stay will lift as to each individual defendant upon resolution of the criminal case 

against that defendant.

3. The parties shall file a joint report as to the status of the pending criminal cases by no 

later than June 4, 2024.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 17, 2024 /s/

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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