Gibbons

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RODNEY JEROME WOMACK, ) Case No.: 1:19-cv-00615-AWI-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS v. ) REGARDING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

DISCOVERY SANCTIONS

W. GIBBONS, et al., ) ) (ECF No. 63) Defendants. ) ) ) ) )

Plaintiff Rodney Jerome Womack is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Defendants’ motion for discovery sanctions, filed June 18, 2021. I. RELEVANT BACKGROUND This action is proceeding against Defendants W. Gibbons, A. Gomez, E. Smith, and G. O’Brien for excessive force and deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. On June 5, 2020, Defendants Gibbons and Gomez filed an answer to the complaint. (ECF No. 30.) On July 29, 2020, the Court issued the…