Estate of Antonio Thomas v. County of Sacramento

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ESTATE OF ANTONIO THOMAS, et al., No. 2:20-cv-0903 KJM DB Plaintiffs, v. ORDER COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO et al., Defendants. 16 This matter came before the undersigned on February 18, 2022, for hearing of plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(1). (ECF No. 110.) Attorney Mark Merin appeared via Zoom on behalf of plaintiffs. Attorney Carl Fessenden appeared via Zoom on behalf of defendants. Having considered the parties’ briefing and oral argument plaintiffs’ motion is denied without prejudice to renewal. Before turning to plaintiffs’ motion, the undersigned notes that the parties have been previously advised that “[t]he 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). “When that cooperation breaks down, the district court has broad discretion

1 Defendants filed a request…