Puckett

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Jeremy Phillip Puckett, No. 2:22-cv-00350-KJM-DB Plaintiff, ORDER v. County of Sacramento, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 On March 19, 2024, the then-assigned magistrate judge granted plaintiffs motion to compel and ordered defense counsel to pay sanctions for violating the Local Rules and the magistrate judge’s Standard Information. Compel Order, ECF No. 119. The magistrate Judge 20 also permitted the parties to brief whether plaintiff should be awarded the reasonable expenses he incurred in bringing the motion to compel. /d. at 10. The parties briefed the issue. See Pl.’s Mem., ECF No. 133; Defs.” Opp’n, ECF No. 144. In the interim, this court denied defendants’ 23 motion to reconsider the magistrate judge’s order on the motion to compel. Prior Mot. Recons. MJ Compel Order, ECF No. 136; Prior Order, ECF No. 168. The magistrate judge then awarded 25 plaintiff monetary sanctions of…