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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

WAYNE GOLDEN,

Plaintiff,

v.

R. LANKFORD, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:14-cv-1923 KJN P

ORDER

Plaintiff consented to proceed before the undersigned for all purposes. See 28 U.S.C. 

§ 636(c). Plaintiff filed a document entitled “Motion to release [Doctors] at CMF HDSP Puree 

Diet Orders.” (ECF No. 28 at 1.) It appears that plaintiff seeks a court order requiring prison 

officials to release to plaintiff the names of doctors at California Medical Facility (“CMF”) and 

High Desert State Prison (“HDSP”) who wrote orders for plaintiff to receive a pureed diet. 

First, plaintiff’s request is premature. Defendants have not yet been served in this action. 

Once defendants have appeared in this action, plaintiff may seek this information through 

discovery. See, e.g., Fed. R. Civ. P. 33, 34. Plaintiff may obtain this information by seeking an 

Olsen Review, which is an administrative process that provides prisoners with access to 

nonconfidential information in their central files and medical records.

Second, once defendants have appeared in this action, plaintiff is informed that court 

permission is not necessary for discovery requests and that neither discovery requests served on 

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an opposing party nor that party’s responses should be filed until such time as a party becomes 

dissatisfied with a response and seeks relief from the court pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure. Discovery requests between the parties shall not be filed with the court unless, and 

until, they are at issue. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion (ECF No. 28) is placed 

in the court file and disregarded. 

Dated: April 8, 2015

/gold1923.411

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