Wong

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHARLES BROWN, Case No. 2:20-cv-01673-JAM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL AND

v. MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY AND

TO SET A SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

S.H. WONG, ECF Nos. 24, 25 Defendant. 16 Plaintiff has filed a motion to compel defendant to produce documents. ECF No. 25. That motion also requests that the court set a settlement conference. Id. On December 18, 2020, this case was referred to the court’s Post-Screening Alternative Dispute Resolution Project (“early ADR”). ECF No. 22. The action was ordered stayed for 120 days to allow the parties to participate in a settlement conference, which is currently set before Magistrate Judge Dennis M. Cota on February 25, 2021. The December 18 order specifically prohibited the parties from engaging in formal discovery. Id. at 3. In light of that order, plaintiff’s motion to compel and to set a settlement conference, ECF No. 25, is denied.…