(PC) Driver v. Kern County Superior Court
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BILLY DRIVER, JR., No. 2: 20-cv-1665 JAM KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER KERN VALLEY SUPERIOR COURT, et al., 15 Defendants.
17 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel, with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pending before the court is plaintiff’s June 16, 2021 motion to compel the law librarian to return plaintiff’s 127 pages-long legal document and his 19 pages-long legal document, submitted for copying on June 1, 2021. (ECF No. 54.) The undersigned construes plaintiff’s motion to compel as a motion for a protective order. See Wilson v. Nesbeth, 2011 WL 4043569, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 9, 2011) (magistrate judges are authorized to issue orders for non-dispositive motions not involving injunctive relief). For the reasons stated herein, plaintiff’s motion to compel is denied. In the motion to compel, plaintiff describes the 19 pages-long document as a writ of execution to enforce a money…