Opinion
2:22-cv-01282-APG-NJK
10-24-2022
TYLER WRIGHT, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL B. SCOMA, et al.. Defendants.
ORDER [DOCKET NO. 11]
NANCY J. KOPPE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs motion to enter discovery plan. Docket No. 11. Proposed discovery plans must be submitted as a stipulation. Local Rule 26-1(a). Written 1 stipulations must be signed by all parties or their attorneys. Local Rule 7-1(a). Plaintiff s motion ' contains emails with Defendants regarding the proposed discovery plan. See Docket No. 11-2. However, nowhere in those emails do Defendants frilly assent to the proposed discovery plan. ' Therefore, Plaintiff s references to those emails do not constitute signatures for pruposes of Local Rules 7-1(a) and 26-1(a). Docket No. 11-1 at 4; see also Local Rule IC 5-1 (“Signatures”).
Accordingly, Plaintiffs motion to enter discovery plan is DENIED without prejudice. Docket No. 11. Defendants must meet and confer with Plaintiff no later than October 27, 2022, ' and a joint proposed discovery plan must be submitted no later than October 28, 2022. In addition to the normal requirements for discovery plans, the amended discovery plan must also include a certification that Defendants have read Local Rule 26 in its entirety.
IT IS SO ORDERED.