Samuels
Samuels v. Lizarraga
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ROBERT EARL SAMUELS, Case No.: 20cv1051-MDD-KSC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
v. MOTION FOR
RECONSIDERATION
M. LIZARRAGA,
Defendant. 14 [ECF No. 22]
16 Robert Earl Samuels (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner proceeding in 17 this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, filed a motion for 18 reconsideration of the Court’s January 25, 2021 Order denying Plaintiff’s 19 motion to compel M. Lizarraga (“Defendant”) to produce documents 20 responsive to his requests for production of documents, set one, numbers one 21 and two. (ECF No. 15). As it relates to the instant motion, the Court 22 declined to compel Defendant to produce a list of Plaintiff’s cellmates and
24 1 Plaintiff brought the motion as an objection to a Magistrate Judge’s Order pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72. (ECF No. 22 at 1). However, Rule 72 does not apply to a Magistrate Judge’s Order when the parties have consented to that Judge’s jurisdiction for purposes of…