Velasquez-Miranda
(PC) Lewis v. Velasquez-Miranda
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DARONTA TYRONE LEWIS, No. 2:21-cv-0932-JAM-EFB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER M. VELASQUEZ-MIRANDA, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On December 10, 2021, the court extended defendants’ deadline for responding to plaintiff’s requests for written discovery to February 8, 2022 and directed defendants to respond to the discovery requests filed with plaintiff’s motions at ECF Nos. 41 and 46. ECF No. 51. Since then, plaintiff has inundated the docket with discovery-related motions that are redundant and difficult to interpret. See ECF Nos. 52, 53, 551, 59, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 722. As 23 1 In his January 14, 2022 motion, plaintiff sought a stay of discovery on the grounds that his cell and legal property were contaminated with parasites that were “eating [him] alive.” ECF No. 55. On February 18, 2022, defendants filed a statement of non-opposition. …