(PC) Brooks v. Lee

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 RODNEY BROOKS, Case No. 2:18-cv-00374-WBS-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER J. LEE, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff has filed his fifth motion to modify the scheduling order and seeks for the first time to reopen discovery. ECF No. 100. Given the time plaintiff has already been granted to complete discovery and his failure to articulate sufficient basis for modification of the discovery order, I will deny his motion and direct him to file an opposition or statement of non-opposition to defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff filed the operative complaint on June 28, 2021, ECF No. 58, and, after the case was stayed for 120 days and referred to the court’s alternative dispute resolution program, the discovery and scheduling order issued on July 15, 2022, ECF No. 79. The discovery and scheduling order set out the following deadlines: All requests for discovery were to be served on or before October 14, 2022, and…