Rattan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DARREN HENDERSON, No. 2:22-cv-1218 AC P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 RATTAN, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a motion to compel (ECF No. 33) 18 which defendant opposes (ECF No. 36). 19 I. Plaintiff’s Allegations 20 The complaint alleges that defendant Rattan violated plaintiff’s rights under the Eighth 21 Amendment when he denied plaintiff’s requests for a diabetic snack order over a period of six 22 months beginning in May 2021 and denied plaintiff’s request to renew the chrono for his orthotic 23 shoes. ECF No. 1 at 3-4. 24 II. Legal Standard for Discovery 25 The scope of discovery under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1) is broad. 26 Discovery may be obtained as to “any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s claim or 27 defense and proportional to the needs of the case.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). “Information within 28 this scope of discovery need not be…