Petras
(PC) Mora v. Petras
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RUBEN EDWARD MORA, Case No. 2:20-cv-00749-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO COMPEL
v. ECF No. 36 OGNJEN PETRAS, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff has filed a motion to compel defendant to provide responses to interrogatories. ECF No. 36. Defendant opposes the motion, arguing that under the court’s scheduling order, plaintiff’s interrogatories were not timely served and his motion to compel was untimely filed. ECF No. 37. I agree with defendant and will deny plaintiff’s motion to compel. On August 18, 2020, the previously assigned magistrate judge issued a scheduling order requiring all discovery, including filing any motions to compel, to be completed by January 29, 2021. ECF No. 23 at 4. That order also required all requests for discovery to be served by December 4, 2020. Id. On January 8, 2021 plaintiff filed a motion for an extension of time asking that “if here’s any deadlines, may [he] have more time.” ECF…