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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BENNY WILLIAMS, Case No. 2:19-cv-02229-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTIONS FOR EXTENSIONS OF TIME

v. AND DENYING HIS MOTIONS FOR

PREFERRED LIBRARY USER STATUS, TO

NEWSOME, et al., POSTPONE HIS DEPOSITION, TO COMPEL

DISCOVERY, TO MODIFY THE

Defendants. SCHEDULING ORDER, AND FOR

APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL.

16 ECF Nos. 29, 30, 33, 34, 38, 47, 49, 52 17 18 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding without counsel, has filed numerous motions, several of which are addressed herein. First, plaintiff has filed his second motion asking the court to order prison officials to designate him a “preferred library user” so that he can physically access his prison’s law library. ECF No. 29. He contends that the prison’s paging system, which was implemented in response to the current pandemic—and which limits the amount of legal material he can access at one time— is inadequate to…