ORDER FOR PLAINTIFF TO SHOW CAUSE WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE SANCTIONED FOR FAILING TO APPEAR, FAILING TO FILE HIS SCHEDULING CONFERENCE STATEMENT, AND FAILING TO SERVE HIS INITIAL DISCLOSURES ON DEFENDANTS

ORDER REQUIRING PLAINTIFF TO FILE HIS SCHEDULING CONFERENCE STATEMENT AND SERVE DEFENDANTS WITH HIS INITIAL DISCLOSURES

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL (ECF NO. 44)

ORDER FOR CLERK TO SEND PLAINTIFF A COPY OF ORDER REQUIRING INITIAL DISCLOSURES AND SETTING AN INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE (ECF NO. 33)

ERICA P. GROSJEAN, Magistrate Judge.

Shannon Riley ("Plaintiff") is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis with this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Court attempted to hold an initial scheduling conference on November 15, 2017. Deputy Attorney General Erin Doering and Supervising Deputy Attorney General Michelle Angus telephonically appeared on behalf of Defendants. Plaintiff failed to appear. Plaintiff also failed to file the required scheduling conference statement and did not serve Defendants with his initial disclosures (see ECF No. 33).

The Court has rescheduled the conference to January 8, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. (ECF No. 48). Prior to the conference, Plaintiff will be required to 1) explain why he did not participate in the conference as ordered; 2) file a scheduling conference statement as previously ordered; and 3) serve Defendants with his initial disclosures as previously ordered.

Additionally, the Court will deny Plaintiff's motion to compel (ECF No. 44) because discovery has not yet been opened in this case (ECF No. 4, p. 4). However, Defendants will be required to respond to the discovery requests identified in the motion to compel (and attached exhibits) forty-five days after the Court opens discovery; Plaintiff does not need to reserve the discovery.1

Accordingly, based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED that:

IT IS SO ORDERED.