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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 PHILIP DEBEAUBIEN, No. 2:19-cv-1329 WBS DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA

HIGHWAY PATROL, CHP

LIEUTENANT TODD BROWN, CHP

SERGEANT REGGIE WHITEHEAD,

CHP CHIEF BRENT NEWMAN, Defendants. 17 On October 15, 2021, this matter came before the undersigned pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(1) for hearing of plaintiff’s motion to compel. (ECF No. 92.) Attorney Stewart Katz appeared via Zoom on behalf of the plaintiff. Attorney Jianlin Song appeared via Zoom on behalf of defendant Joy Graf. “The discovery process in theory should be cooperative and largely unsupervised by the district court.” Sali v. Corona Regional Medical Center, 884 F.3d 1218, 1219 (9th Cir. 2018). Despite this truism, this is the sixth time the undersigned has resolved a discovery dispute in this action. (ECF No. 82 at 4.) And it is the sixth time plaintiff’s argument has proven meritorious. Here, plaintiff’s motion…