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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYLVESTER MOORE,

Plaintiff,

v.

M. MAGAT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-03608-HSG (PR) 

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO 

COMPEL DISCOVERY

Re: Dkt. No. 52

On August 8, 2014, plaintiff, a prisoner incarcerated at the Nevada Southern Detention 

Center filed a pro se amended complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging constitutional 

violations at Santa Rita Jail and the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility, where he was housed as a 

federal pre-trial detainee. On November 24, 2014, the Court screened the complaint and ordered 

service on seven defendants. The Court ordered that discovery proceed in accordance with the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Dkt. No. 15. Plaintiff has filed a motion to compel discovery 

from third party Corizon Health, Inc. (“Corizon”). Dkt. No. 52.

Plaintiff fails to certify that he has fulfilled the meet and confer requirements under Rule 

37(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Civil Local Rule 37-1(a). Before filing a 

motion to compel, the moving party must first attempt to resolve the dispute informally with the 

opposing party. It is only when the parties are unable to resolve the dispute after making a good 

faith effort to do so that they should seek the Court’s intervention. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 

37(a)(3)(B); N.D. Cal. Local Rule 37-1(b). 

Because Plaintiff is incarcerated, he is not required to meet and confer with Corizon in 

person. Rather, if Plaintiff’s discovery requests are denied and he intends to pursue a motion to 

compel, he need only send a letter to counsel for Corizon to that effect, offering them one last 

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opportunity to provide him the sought-after information. The letter should state the specific 

discovery he seeks, and state the reasons that Plaintiff believes he is entitled to such discovery. 

Unless and until Plaintiff files the requisite certification demonstrating that he has conferred with 

counsel for Corizon, making known his intention to file a motion to compel, the Court will not 

interfere with discovery matters. 

For these reasons, the motion to compel is DENIED without prejudice as premature.

This order terminates Docket No. 52.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 21, 2015

______________________________________

HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYLVESTER MOORE,

Plaintiff,

v.

M. MAGAT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-03608-HSG 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on September 21, 2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by 

placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Sylvester Moore ID: 16974-111 / F-3-13A

Nevada Southern Detention Center

2190 East Mesquite Avenue

Pahrump, NV 89060 

Dated: September 21, 2015

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Nikki D. Riley, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

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