Bernhard

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ROXANE BERNHARD and RANDY B. Case No. 2:20-cv-2353-KJM-KJN

BERNHARD,

ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO Plaintiffs, COMPEL AND FOR SANCTIONS, AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE v. (ECF No. 19.) CITY OF TRACY, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 On March 2, 2022, defendants filed a motion to compel responses to requests for productions of documents and special interrogatories, served on plaintiffs on November 17, 2021. (ECF No. 19.) In the motion, defendants asserted they have not received any discovery responses from plaintiffs’ counsel, despite defense counsel’s letter and voicemail message in an attempt to meet and confer. (Id.) Plaintiff did not file any opposition to the motion and failed to appear at the hearing on the April 12, 2022. (ECF Nos. 21, 22.) At the hearing, defense counsel stated he left another unanswered voicemail with plaintiffs’ counsel on Friday, April 8, 2022, and noted plaintiffs’ failure…