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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 MAURICE WATKINS, No. 2:20-cv-1360 DB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER JEFF LYNCH, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action 42 U.S.C. §1983. Plaintiff claims officers failed to protect him in violation of his Eighth Amendment. Presently before the court is plaintiff’s motion for an extension of time to file an amended complaint (ECF No. 38) and defendants’ motion to stay discovery (ECF No. 37). For the reasons set forth below, the court will deny plaintiff’s motion as moot and grant defendants’ motion to stay discovery. I. Plaintiff’s Motion for an Extension of Time to File an Amended Complaint Plaintiff has filed a motion seeking a sixty-day extension of time to file an amended complaint. (ECF No. 38.) He states that he would like a sixty-day extension in order to hire counsel near his release date of February 15, 2022. (Id. at 1-2.) Because there is no…