Hernandez Lopez v. High

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
JOE HERNANDEZ LOPEZ
Plaintiff,
v.
ANTHONY HIGH,
Defendant.
Case No. 1:24-cv-01327-KES-SAB
ORDER DIRECTING DEFENDANT TO
SET HEARING DATE AND FOR
PLAINTIFF TO FILE A RESPONSE SEVEN
DAYS BEFORE THE HEARING DATE
(ECF No. 27)
On November 12, 2025, Defendant Anthony High filed a motion to compel Plaintiff Joe
Hernandez Lopez to provide responses to Defendant’s interrogatories and requests for
production. (ECF No. 27.) In his motion, Defendant asserts that Plaintiff’s responses were due
on October 6, 2025. (Id. at p. 2.) Defendant further states that, following meet-and-confer
efforts, the parties agreed that Plaintiff would provide his responses by the end of the day on
October 17, 2025. (Id.) Defendant maintains that he has not received Plaintiff’s responses to
any written discovery. (Id.) Defendant did not set a hearing date within his motion, and the
parties did not file a joint statement regarding the discovery dispute. Defendant asserts that there
has been a “complete and total failure to respond to a discovery request” under Local Rule
251(e).
Pursuant to Local Rule 251(e), “a party may bring a motion for relief for hearing on
fourteen (14) days notice. The responding party shall file a response thereto not later than seven

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(7) days before the hearing date. The moving party may file and serve a reply thereto not less
than two (2) days before the hearing date.” L.R. 251(e).
Accordingly, it is HEREBY ORDERED that:
1. Defendant is DIRECTED to file a Notice of Hearing to schedule this matter on
the Court’s calendar;
2. The hearing shall be fourteen (14) days from the Notice; and
3. The Court conducts its law and motion on Wednesdays at 10 am, but the party should
check with the Courtroom Clerk prior to setting in case a Wednesday is not available.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: November 13, 2025
STANLEY A. BOONE
United States Magistrate Judge