Tabor

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 11 CUONG HUY DAO, No. 2: 22-cv-0846 TLN KJN P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER

P. TABOR, et al.,

15 Defendants. 16 17 Introduction Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel, with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pending before the court is plaintiff’s motion for sanctions against defendants filed September 21, 2023. (ECF No. 45.) Plaintiff moves for sanctions on the grounds that his request for exclusion of correctional officers from his deposition was wrongly denied. (Id.) For the reasons stated herein, plaintiff’s motion for sanctions is denied. Background In the pending motion, plaintiff alleges that defendants scheduled plaintiff’s deposition for September 15, 2023, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (ECF No. 45 at 2.) The deposition transcript reflects that the deposition was conducted via videoconference. (ECF No. 47-1 at 31.) The court 28 reporter and defense counsel were not in the deposition room with plaintiff. (Id.) Plaintiff alleges that…