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,

12 Plaintiffs,

SANCTIONS ORDER

v.

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 On February 4, 2021 and March 2, 2021, respectively, Defendants Dr. Vickers and the City of Sacramento moved to compel plaintiffs to furnish responses to outstanding discovery. (ECF Nos. 19, 20.) On March 4, 2021, the court ordered plaintiffs’ counsel, Joseph Barnet Weinberger, to show cause within 7 days why monetary sanctions should not issue for his failure to participate in preparing a joint statement of the discovery disagreement and for failing to respond to the first-filed motion to compel. (ECF No. 23.) On March 11, 2021, plaintiff’s counsel filed a responding letter assuming personal responsibility for not responding to outstanding discovery requests, stating counsel would provide full responses without objection to all outstanding discovery within 10 days, stating counsel was actively looking for new counsel for plaintiffs, and stating the court should grant…