Chothia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 EUGENE C. BROWN, Case No. 1:19-cv-00352-EPG (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

ADDITIONAL INTERROGATORIES

v. (ECF NO. 61) C. CHOTHIA, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff, Eugene C. Brown, an inmate at the Sierra Conservation Center (“SCC”), is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed a motion seeking to increase the number of interrogatories to defendants pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 33(a)(1). (ECF No. 61.) Defendants oppose the motion, stating that Plaintiff has not shown good cause for the requested increase in the number of interrogatories. (ECF No. 62.) For the reasons set forth below, the Court will grant the motion. In the Court’s Scheduling Order, the Court ordered that “[a] party may serve on any other party no more than 15 interrogatories . . . . On motion, these limits may be increased for good cause.” (ECF No. 50 at 2.) Further, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure…