(PC) Myers v. Bates

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 BYRON CHAPIN MYERS, No. 2:19-cv-00786-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER K. BATES, et al., Defendants. 14 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action is proceeding on plaintiff’s complaint filed May 3, 2019 against defendants Bates, Garcia, and Prasad for Eighth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to plaintiff’s nutritional needs following his May 3, 2018 surgery for: 1) failing to provide liquid nutritional supplements between August 16, 2018 and August 29, 2018; and, 2) removing plaintiff from a full liquid diet/liquid nutritional supplement diet without any form of a transitional diet. Currently pending before the court is plaintiff’s motion to quash or modify a subpoena issued by defendants for his medical records. ECF No. 16. Defendants have filed an opposition and plaintiff has filed a reply. ECF Nos. 18, 20. For the…