Carter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL NEAL MILLER, No. 2:21-cv-01981-KJM-EFB (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER RUBY CARTER, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently pending before the court are defendants’ motion for a protective order relieving them of their responsibility to respond to plaintiff’s second sets of requests for admissions (RFAs) to each defendant (ECF No. 23) and plaintiff’s motion to compel responses to the same (ECF No. 24 at 4-5). For the reasons that follow the court will deny both motions. I. Background The case proceeds on plaintiff’s complaint (ECF No. 1), which the court found to state potentially cognizable claims against defendants Carter, Filenko, and Nelson. ECF No. 6. Plaintiff alleges that defendants, nurses at Mule Creek State Prison, deprived him of necessary medication in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. ECF No.…