Dragasits

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Stephen DRAGASITS, Case No.: 18-cv-0512-WQH-AGS Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO COMPEL

v.

DISCOVERYAND TO APPOINT

T. RUCKER, ET AL., COUNSEL (ECF 91) Defendants. 8 Pro se plaintiff Dragasits moves to (1) compel production of defendants’ personnel files; and (2) appoint counsel. (ECF 91, at 1-2.) His requests are denied. BACKGROUND During his deposition, Dragasits asked defendants’ counsel to produce defendants’ personnel files. (Id.) He claims counsel responded, “it wouldn’t be a problem,” (id.), but counsel denies this. (ECF 93, at 8.) Dragasits also twice asked the Court for the personnel files, which the Court denied because the motions violated discovery procedures. (ECF 91, at 2; see also ECF 63; ECF 71.) Although fact discovery ended July 30, 2021, (see ECF 60), Dragasits later “wrote to defense counsel on August 19, 2021, ‘requesting the personnel records of L. Marshall, I.…