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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RUBEN RODRIGUEZ BERNAL, No. 2:16-cv-2511 AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER JEFFREY BEARD, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the court is plaintiff’s motion to compel discovery. ECF No. 46. According to the motion to compel, which was filed on January 29, 2020,1 plaintiff sent seven requests for admission to defendant Weeks “on or about the 22nd of December.” ECF No. 46 at 2. Weeks responded to each of plaintiff’s requests for admission by objecting that the requests were untimely. Id. at 2-5. Plaintiff seeks to compel Weeks to respond to his requests for admission. Id. As addressed below, both the requests and the motion are untimely, and the motion will therefore be denied. //// 26 Since plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se, he is afforded the benefit of the prison mailbox rule. Houston v. Lack, 487…