Garcia

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 SALVADOR GARCIA, JR., No. 2:23-cv-00899-DAD-KJN 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, ET AL. 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff’s counsel subpoenaed non-party witness Meghan McEvilly for a deposition for 18 March 11, 2024. (ECF No. 19-2 at 6-8.) On March 6, 2024, Ms. McEvilly, through counsel, 19 filed a motion to quash and for protective order. (ECF No. 19.) Plaintiff opposes the motion. 20 (ECF No. 21.) For the reasons set forth below, the undersigned DENIES the instant motion and 21 vacates the motion hearing currently set for April 2, 2024. 1 22 Pursuant to Local Rule 251(b) a discovery motion “shall not be heard unless [] the parties 23 have conferred and attempted to resolve their differences[.]” In this regard, “[c]ounsel for all 24 interested parties shall confer in advance of the filing of the motion or in advance of the hearing 25 of the motion in a good faith effort to resolve the differences that are the subject of the motion.” 26

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