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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 BENNY WILLIAMS, No. 2:19-cv-2229-KJM-EFB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER NEWSOME, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A scheduling order issued on May 13, 2020 provided that the parties must serve their discovery requests on each other no later than August 14, 2020. ECF No. 20. That schedule was modified on July 28, 2020 extending that deadline to November 12, 2020. ECF No. 23. As discussed below, plaintiff is apparently confused as to that deadline and has submitted further requests for extensions that are now moot. Plaintiff has filed a motion requesting that the court order prison officials to designate him a “preferred library user” so that he can physically access the law library. ECF No. 22. Currently, such physical access for non-preferred users has been eliminated and replaced by a paging system as part of the institution’s…