Mayes

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ERNEST LEE VADEN, No. 2:19-cv-2216 TLN CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER DR. ROBERT L. MAYES, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a California prisoner proceeding with a civil action against defendants Dr. Mayes, Dr. Kuersten, and California State Prison, Solano. Plaintiff has filed motions to compel further responses to plaintiff’s first and second set of requests for production of documents. First, defendants argue that the motions are not timely. On April 13, 2022, the court extended the discovery deadline to July 1, 2022, and the parties were informed that any motion to compel was to be filed by that date. The motions to compel were deemed filed on June 30, 2022, when plaintiff submitted the motions for mailing. Douglas v. Noelle, 567 F.3d 1103, 1107 (9th Cir. 2009) (documents submitted by prisoners in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action such as this are deemed filed when the prisoner gives the document to a prison official for…