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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 AKIVA AVIKAIDA ISRAEL, No. 2:21-cv-00262-TLN-EFB (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER SHMARYAHU BROWNSTEIN, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The action proceeds on plaintiff’s second amended complaint, alleging that defendants have violated her constitutional rights to free exercise of religion and equal protection and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. ECF Nos. 26, 28. Defendants have filed a motion for terminating sanctions or, alternatively, an order compelling plaintiff to participate in her deposition. ECF No. 78. Defendants argue that plaintiff has refused to be deposed and has also served deficient and untimely responses to written discovery. Id. Plaintiff responds that, during the relevant time period, she experienced “medically disabling episodes of epilepsy, urinary incontinence and acute mental…