Wong

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DONTAE LARAIL MCFADDEN, No. 2:22-cv-1234 AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER SAM WONG, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action, has filed a motion to compel discovery. ECF No. 33. However, the deadline for filing motions to compel discovery was December 18, 2023. ECF No. 32. Plaintiff’s motion is therefore untimely by nearly a month and provides no explanation for the delay in filing. Moreover, even if the court were willing to overlook the untimeliness of the filing, the motion does not reproduce the requests at issue or defendant’s responses and makes only general assertions regarding why defendant’s responses were deficient. The Court does not hold prisoners proceeding pro se to the same standards that it holds attorneys. However, at a minimum, as the moving party plaintiff bears the burden of informing the court of which discovery requests are the subject of his…