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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 JEFFREY DONNELL ROBINSON, Case No. 1:20-cv-00980-JLT-HBK (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

MOTION TO COMPEL AND MOTION FOR

v. EXTENSION OF TIME C. CRYER and L. MERRITT, (Doc. No. 56) Defendants. 15 Pending before the Court is Defendants’ Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Deposition and Modify the Court’s Scheduling Order, filed on March 28, 2023. (Doc. No. 56, “Motion”). In addition to seeking an Order compelling Plaintiff’s deposition, Defendants seek a 60-day extension of time to complete discovery, considering Plaintiff’s failure to comply with their discovery requests. (Id. at 3). Plaintiff, who is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis on his FAC filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, did not respond to the Motion and the time to do so has expired. See E.D. Cal. R. 230(l). For the reasons set forth below, the Court grants Defendants’ Motion. I. BACKGROUND 25 …