Rodriguez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 JOSHUA BLAND, Case No. 1:20-cv-00478-DAD-EPG (PC) 10 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR DISCOVERY SANCTIONS v. IN PART 12 ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, et al., (ECF No. 57) 13 Defendants. 14 15 Joshua Bland (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On June 25, 2021, Defendants filed a motion for discovery sanctions. (ECF No. 57). Defendants “move for dismissal under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(b) and (c), or in the alternative, for evidentiary sanctions. The grounds for this motion are that the Court ordered the parties to exchange initial disclosures, and Bland failed to comply.” (Id. at 1). Plaintiff has repeatedly failed to comply with this Court’s orders requiring him to provide initial disclosures to Defendants and has also failed to participate in discovery. Plaintiff has never served a document entitled “initial disclosures” as required by this Court’s 25 …