Rodriguez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DANNY GEROME YOUNG, No. 2:15-cv-02604-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER RODRIGUEZ, et al., Defendant. 16 Plaintiff brings this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See generally Compl., ECF No. 1. On January 14, 2016, plaintiff returned a signed form consenting to proceed before a United States Magistrate Judge. ECF No. 8. On June 1, 2017, defendants returned a form declining consent to proceed before a magistrate judge. ECF No. 36. Nearly two years of motion practice followed. See ECF Nos. 48 (defendants’ summary judgment motion), 55 (magistrate judge’s Findings & Recommendations), 58 (this court’s order adopting magistrate judge’s Findings and Recommendations). On November 13, 2019, the magistrate judge issued a scheduling order; she also closed discovery and motion practice, ordered the parties to provide pretrial statements, and set a date for a jury trial before this court. Further Scheduling Order, ECF 26…