Medina
(PC) Cotton v. Medina
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 WESLEY COTTON, Case No. 1:22-cv-00568-JLT-EPG (PC) 11 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND
MOTION TO COMPEL AND GRANTING IN
v. PART PLAINTIFF’S THIRD MOTION TO MEDINA, et al., COMPEL 14 Defendants. (ECF NO. 67, 72)
16 Plaintiff Wesley Cotton is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff alleges that while he was in a locked caged enclosure in the B yard of Corcoran State Prison (CSP), toxic gas from cannisters used to break up a fight in the C yard drifted over and injured him. Defendant Medina failed to protect Plaintiff from the gas and Plaintiff suffered from exposure. (See generally ECF No. 1). Pending before the Court are Plaintiff’s motions to compel the production of camera footage and other evidence, which Plaintiff contends would demonstrate his interactions with Medina—the events underlying this action—or otherwise support his claims. (ECF No. 67, 72.) Defendants argue that this…