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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

JERRAD DUPREE ALLEN,

Plaintiff,

v.

CORTEZ SUMMIT, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 1:23-cv-01549-SAB

DISCOVERY AND SCHEDULING ORDER

ORDER DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT 

TO FILE NOTICE OF THIS COURT'S 

EXPEDITED TRIAL SETTING 

PROCEDURES UPON CONSENT OF ALL 

PARTIES

Deadline to Amend Pleadings: March 18, 2025

Discovery Deadline: August 15, 2025

Dispositive Motion Deadline: October 14, 2025

Plaintiff Jerrad Dupree Allen (“Plaintiff”), a pretrial detainee at the Kern County Jail, is 

proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Defendants 

Bakersfield Police Department Officers Cortez Summit, Victor Coronado, and Dominic Ramirez 

(collectively “Defendants”). On December 16, 2024, Defendants filed their answer. (ECF No. 

27.) Accordingly, the Court issues the following discovery and scheduling order. 

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Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 1, 16, and 26−36, discovery shall proceed as 

follows:

Discovery Procedures:

1. Discovery requests shall be served by the parties pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 5 and Local Rule 135. Discovery requests and responses shall not be filed with the 

Court unless required by Local Rules 250.2, 250.3 and 250.4. 

2. Responses to written discovery requests shall be due forty-five (45) days after the 

request is first served. Boilerplate objections are disfavored and may be summarily overruled by 

the Court. Responses to document requests shall include all documents within a party's 

possession, custody or control. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 34(a)(1). Documents are deemed within a 

party's possession, custody or control if the party has actual possession, custody or control 

thereof, or the legal right to obtain the property on demand. Amendments to discovery responses 

served after the filing of and in response to a motion to compel are strongly disfavored, absent 

good faith. The parties are required to act in good faith during the course of discovery and the 

failure to do so may result in the payment of expenses pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 37(a)(5) or other appropriate sanctions authorized by the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure or the Local Rules.

3. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(a)(2)(B), Defendants may depose 

Plaintiff and any other witness confined in a prison upon condition that, at least fourteen (14) 

days before such a deposition, Defendants serve all parties with the notice required by Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(1). Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(4), the 

parties may take any deposition under this section by video conference without a further motion 

or order of the Court. Nothing herein forecloses a party from bringing a motion for protective 

order pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1) if necessary.

4. If discovery disputes arise, the parties shall comply with all pertinent rules including 

Rules 5, 7, 11, 26, and 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Rules 110, 130, 131, 133, 

135, 142, 144, and 230(l) of the Local Rules of Practice for the United States District Court, 

Eastern District of California. A discovery motion that does not comply with applicable rules 

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will be stricken and may result in imposition of sanctions. However, unless otherwise ordered, 

Local Rule 251 shall not apply, and the requirement set forth in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 

26 and 37 of a good faith conference or attempt to confer with the other party to resolve the 

dispute shall not apply. Voluntary compliance with this provision of Rules 26 and 37 is 

encouraged, and if the Court deems it appropriate in any given case, it will reimpose the good 

faith meet and confer requirement. A moving party should not seek to compel production of 

documents which are equally available to that moving party, such as documents in plaintiff's 

central file.

Amendment to Pleadings:

5. The deadline for amending the pleadings is March 18, 2025.

Filing Deadlines: 

6. The deadline for the completion of all discovery, including filing all motions to compel 

discovery, is August 15, 2025. Absent good cause, discovery motions will not be considered if 

filed after the discovery deadline. Therefore, discovery requests and deposition notices must be 

served sufficiently in advance of the discovery deadline to permit time for a response and time to 

prepare and file a motion to compel. 

7. The deadline for filing all dispositive motions is October 14, 2025. 

8. An opposition or a statement of no opposition to any dispositive and/or summary 

judgment motion shall be timely filed consistent with Local Rule 230(l). A failure to file that 

opposition or statement of no opposition shall be construed by this Court as a non-opposition to 

the motion.

9. All motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, motions concerning discovery, 

motions pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 7, 11, 12, 15, 41, 55, 56, 59 and 60, and 

Local Rule 110, shall be briefed pursuant to Local Rule 230(l). Failure to timely oppose such a 

motion may be deemed a waiver of opposition to the motion. L.R. 230(l). Opposition to all other 

motions need be filed only as directed by the court.

10. Unsigned affidavits or declarations will be stricken, and affidavits or declarations not 

signed under penalty of perjury have no evidentiary value.

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11. A request for an extension of a deadline set in this order must be filed on or 

before the expiration of the deadline in question and will only be granted on a showing of 

good cause.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 18, 2024 

STANLEY A. BOONE

United States Magistrate Judge

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