UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA SAVANNAH DIVISION

JOHN ANTHONY DOYLE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) CV420-254 ) AMANDA KELLEY, PATRICK ) DOHERTY, and COREY ) STEVENS, ) ) Defendants. )

ORDER Plaintiff John Anthony Doyle submitted a

Complaint in October 2020 when he was a prisoner at the Chatham County Detention Center. Doc. 1. District Judge Dudley Bowen1 screened his Complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A and approved it for service. Doc. 7 at 5. The Clerk entered a Scheduling Notice setting discovery and motions deadlines. Doc. 16. Plaintiff subsequently filed a notice indicating that his address changed from the Chatham County Detention Center to 5469 Gate Road, Tamarac, FL 33319. Doc. 17.

1 The case has since been reassigned to Chief Judge Hall. See doc. 8 at 6. Defendants filed a Motion to Compel Discovery explaining that they served their interrogatories and requests for production on Plaintiff at

both his prior and updated addresses; he has not responded, and his deadline to do so has run. Doc. 18 at 2-3. They also note that Plaintiff

has not responded to their deficiency letter pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, and that he “has not served any discovery requests of his own or corresponded with Defendants in any way, except for the Notice of

Change of Address, which Defendants received via the Court’s CM/ECF electronic notification system.” Id. at 3. Plaintiff has not opposed Defendants’ Motion to Compel Discovery, and his deadline to do so has

run. See generally docket; S.D. Ga. L. Civ. R. 7.5 (“Failure to respond within [14 days] shall indicate that there is no opposition to a motion.”).2 Given Plaintiff’s failure to respond to Defendants’ discovery

requests and Motion to Compel Discovery, he is DIRECTED to SHOW CAUSE no later than December 1, 2022 why this entire case should not be dismissed for his failure to prosecute with reasonable promptness.

Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b); see also Link v. Wabash R.R. Co.,

, 630-

2 Defendants also filed a Motion to Stay and Extend the Discovery Deadline, doc. 19, which asks the Court to stay discovery pending disposition of their Motion to Compel, doc. 18. Doc. 19 at 2. Plaintiff’s deadline to respond to that motion has not yet run. See generally docket; S.D. Ga. L. Civ. R. 7.5. 31 (1962) Wecognizing courts’ power “to clear their calendars of cases that have remained dormant because of the inaction or dilatoriness of the parties seeking relief.”). SO ORDERED, this 17th day of November, 2022.

CHRISTOPHER L. RAY UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA