(PC) Surrell v. CDCR Secretary of Operations

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ALVON SURRELL, SR., No. 2:20-cv-00368-TLN-CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER CDCR SECRETARY OF OPERATIONS, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 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. In a single page motion to compel, plaintiff indicates that defendant Burton has failed to respond to his requests for production of documents. ECF No. 104. However, plaintiff does not indicate when the discovery request was served on defendant. ECF No. 104. As a result, the court cannot determine whether the discovery request was timely or what the deadline was for defendant’s response. The court further notes that plaintiff’s motion is itself untimely filed. This court extended the discovery cut-off date to January 3, 2022 which required all motions to compel be filed by that date. See ECF No. 96. Plaintiff’s current motion to compel was not filed until March 7, 2022, even…