Rodriguez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 JOSHUA BLAND, Case No. 1:20-cv-00478-DAD-EPG (PC) 10 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO COMPEL v. (ECF. No. 78) ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, et al., 13 Defendants. 14 15 16 I. INTRODUCTION Joshua Bland (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On December 3, 2021, Defendants filed a motion to compel, arguing that Plaintiff failed to respond to defendant Rodriguez’s first set of interrogatories and first set of requests for production of documents. (ECF No. 78). Defendants ask the Court to “enter an order compelling Bland’s responses to the interrogatories and requests for production of documents without objection.” (ECF No. 78-1, p. 1). Defendants also ask the Court to “order Bland to pay Defendants’ reasonable expenses in bringing this motion in the sum of $880. Alternatively, Defendants renew their request for terminating sanctions, due to Bland’s 27 …