Lassiter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GENE E. EVANS, Case No. 2:16-cv-01997-DAD-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

MOTION TO COMPEL

v. ECF No. 62 K. LASSITER, et al.,

Defendants. 16 Plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that defendants Lassiter, Montemayor, Bjorson, and Wong violated his Eighth Amendment rights by either threatening to kill plaintiff or urging him to kill himself. ECF No. 26 at 3-4. Defendants have filed a motion to compel arguing that plaintiff failed to adequately respond to their first set of interrogatories and requests for production. ECF No. 62. They argue that plaintiff should be sanctioned and this case be dismissed or, in the alternative, he be directed to adequately answer their requests for production under penalty of sanction. ECF No. 75 at 4. After a lengthy delay, plaintiff has filed an opposition, ECF No. 72, and defendants have filed a reply, ECF No. 75. For the reasons stated below, defendants’…