(PC) Rodriguez v. Albonico

Opinion

DAVID ARNOLD RODRIGUEZ, No. 2:19-cv-1108 MCE AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER N. ALBONICO, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff has filed a motion for a thirty-day extension of time to serve responses to defendants’ request for production and interrogatories. ECF No. 51. The responses were served on February 1, 2021, id. at 1, making plaintiff’s responses due March 22, 2021.1 Good cause appearing, the motion will be granted. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 1. Plaintiff’s motion for an extension of time, ECF No. 51, is GRANTED. 2. Plaintiff shall have an additional thirty days, up to April 21, 2021, to respond to defendants’ request for production and interrogatories.

1 Although the motion was not received until after the deadline had passed, the certificate of service avers that it was mailed prior to the deadline, making the motion timely under the prisoner mailbox rule. See Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988) (establishing rule that a prisoner’s court document is deemed filed on the date the prisoner delivered the document to prison officials for mailing). 3. Defendants’ shall have until May 5, 2021, to file any motions necessary to compel discovery related to their request for production and interrogatories served on February 1, 2021. DATED: March 29, 2021 ~ Httwn— ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 1]