(PC) Perez v. Smith

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SANDRO S. PEREZ, ) Case No.: 1:20-cv-00840-DAD-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION v. ) TO COMPEL DISCOVERY RESPONSES

A, SMITH, et al., ) (ECF No. 45) )

Defendants. ) ) )

Plaintiff Sandro S. Perez is proceeding 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 to compel, filed August 24, 2021. I. RELEVANT BACKGROUND This action is proceeding against Defendants A. Smith, D. Schuller, G. Nwachukwu, J. Burell, V. Giannandrea, J. Trujillo-Villa, J. Szalai, J. Alvarez for failure to protect Plaintiff from an inmate attack on December 18, 2018, in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Defendants filed an answer to the complaint on December 21, 2020. On December 22, 2020, the Court issued the…