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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JASON ROBERT HODGE, Case No. 2:19-cv-01956-DAD-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER TAYLOR, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Jason Robert Hodge is a state inmate proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case proceeds on the first amended complaint, wherein plaintiff alleges that his shoulder was injured in April 2017 when he was shot with rubber bullets during an altercation at Corcoran State Prison (“CSP”). Two physicians recommended surgery to repair the injury. Plaintiff claims that defendants, all members of CDCR’s Statewide Medical Authorization Review Team committee (the “SMART committee”), violated his Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to authorize surgery and directing his physician to provide a steroid injection instead. Before me are a number of motions and other miscellaneous filings. Plaintiff has filed multiple motions to compel, ECF Nos. 77,…