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Parties Involved:
William Jerome Marquise Cook
Plaintiff
West
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WILLIAM JEROME MARQUISE COOK, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

WEST, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:20-cv-0588 AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff has filed a request for production of documents. ECF No. 2. The complaint is 

this case was recently filed and has not yet been screened pursuant to the Prison Litigation 

Reform Act or served on any defendant. Accordingly, discovery is premature. 

Plaintiff is informed that discovery will not begin unless and until the complaint is served, 

a defendant has answered, and the court issues a Discovery and Scheduling Oder. Once 

discovery begins, it will be unnecessary to seek court permission for the service of specific 

discovery requests. Requests for production of documents, and other types of discovery requests, 

are served directly on the party from whom discovery is sought; they are not filed with the court. 

Neither discovery requests served on 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. 

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 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s request for production of 

documents, ECF No. 2, will be disregarded. 

DATED: March 23, 2020 

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