Simpson

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 MICHAEL EUZEL JACQUES, No. 2:21-cv-02143-KJM-EFB (PC) 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 M. SIMPSON, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 18 U.S.C. § 1983. She1 has filed a motion to compel defendants to provide further responses to her 19 requests for production of documents. ECF No. 23. For the reasons that follow, the motion will 20 be granted. 21 I. Background 22 This action proceeds on plaintiff’s complaint, in which she alleges First Amendment 23 retaliation, Eighth Amendment excessive force, and Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference 24 claims against defendants Simpson, Arther, and Jones. ECF Nos. 1, 7. Plaintiff alleges that on 25 August 16, 2020, she participated in an interview with correctional officer Arther concerning a 26 claim of excessive force against correctional officer Simpson. ECF No. 1 at 9-10. Later that day, 27

28 1 Plaintiff is a transgender…