Smith v. County of Sacramento

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLIFFORD SMITH, KRISTINA No. 2:19–cv–01426–TLN–CKD

FLESHMAN,

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Plaintiffs, (ECF Nos. 25, 28) v. 14 COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Defendants City of Sacramento and Angela Vickers, M.D., have moved for terminating sanctions, or, in the alternative, monetary sanctions, for plaintiffs’ failure to furnish discovery responses and failure to comply with a court discovery order. (ECF Nos. 25, 28.) Their motions were noticed for a hearing to take place via Zoom on June 2, 2021. Andrea Velasquez appeared at the hearing on behalf of the City and Paul Baleria appeared on behalf of Dr. Vickers. No one appeared on behalf of plaintiffs. For the reasons set forth below, it is recommended the defendants’ requests for terminating sanctions be granted. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs originally filed this action in the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento. On July 26, 2019, defendant…