1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Luis JACOBO, Case No.: 21-cv-1113-JLS-AGS 12 Plaintiff, ORDER REQUIRING JOINT DISCOVERY PLAN 13 v. 14 Rogelio HERNANDEZ, Nicholas Uhde, Christian Ayala, 15 Defendants. 16

17 By October 13, 2021, the parties must provide the Court with a Joint Discovery Plan 18 (“the Plan”). The Plan must be filed on the CM/ECF system and lodged with Magistrate 19 Judge Schopler by emailing it to [email protected]. Because defendants 20 raised the issue of failure to exhaust, the Plan should offer a brief schedule to adjudicate 21 that issue before moving on to general discovery. See Albino v. Baca,

, 1170 22 (9th Cir. 2014) (“Exhaustion should be decided, if feasible, before reaching the merits of a 23 prisoner’s claim.”). The Plan must identify if good cause exists to modify the Court’s 24 tentative schedule of deadlines, which is as follows: 25

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. Dated: September 22, 2021

Hon. Andrew G. Schopler 22 United States Magistrate Judge 23 24 25 26 27 28