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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JONATHAN GRIGSBY, 1:17-cv-01384-DAD-JLT (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION FOR DEPOSITION; AND

v.

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

M. HERNANDEZ, FOR DEPOSITION AND COSTS FOR

REPORTER

Defendant. (Docs. 60, 63)

17 Plaintiff has filed two motions concerning the deposition of defendant M. Hernandez. In the first motion, Plaintiff asks whether he can take the defendant’s deposition. In response to this motion, Defendant indicates that he is not opposed to a deposition as long as Plaintiff can comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by conducting the deposition before an officer retained at Plaintiff’s expense. In his second motion, Plaintiff asks the Court to advance his deposition expenses because he is proceeding in forma pauperis. Prisoners proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as plaintiff is here, may use any of the discovery methods set forth in the…