(PS) Lull v. County of Sacramento

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHRISTOPHER LULL, No. 2:18-cv-1020-MCE-EFB PS Plaintiff, v. ORDER COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, et al., Defendants. 16 The case is before the court on defendant Ben Lamera’s motion for a protective order seeking to preclude his deposition. ECF No. 39. For the reasons explained below, the motion is granted in part and denied in part.1 I. Background The first amended complaint alleges that in January 2017, plaintiff paid his property taxes in one-dollar bills as a method for protesting and criticizing elected government officials. ECF No. 16 at 4. At the time the payment was submitted, plaintiff expressed complaints “about taxation without representation and simultaneously distributed several novelty dollars that depicted defendant FROST’s face in the middle of the dollar to symbolize the protest and

The court determined that oral argument would not materially assist in the resolution of the pending motion,…