Soltanian

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LARRY WILLIAMS CORTINAS, Case No. 2:20-cv-01067-DAD-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS JALLA SOLTANIAN, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner, filed this action in May 2020, alleging violations of his Eighth Amendment rights to constitutionally adequate medical care. Now pending is defendant Sahota’s motion for terminating sanctions based on plaintiff’s failure to comply with his discovery obligations. ECF No. 89. Plaintiff has responded twice, once in an opposition, ECF No. 94, and again in separately filed objections, ECF No. 95. Defendant has filed a reply. ECF No. 96. Having considered plaintiff’s failures and the availability of lesser sanctions, I now recommend that Sahota’s motion be granted and that this action be dismissed. As such, I also recommend that plaintiff’s pending motion for preliminary injunctive relief, ECF No. 91, be denied as moot. This is not plaintiff’s first brush…