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 “The 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). That theory has certainly been disproven in this action, which has again and again come before the undersigned for resolution of discovery disputes. The most recent disputes include three motions noticed for hearing before the undersigned on May 13, 2022: defendants’ renewed motion for a protective order, defendants’ motion for a protective order, and plaintiffs’ motion to modify the protective order. (ECF Nos. 137, 138, & 144.) As the parties are well aware, the undersigned’s Standard Information re discovery disputes set forth on the court’s web page explains that a joint statement filed before the undersigned shall not…