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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Case Nos. 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DB & 4:01-cv-01351-JST

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT COMPOSED OF THREE JUDGES

PURSUANT TO SECTION 2284, TITLE 28 UNITED STATES CODE

RALPH COLEMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:90-cv-00520 KJM-DB

 THREE-JUDGE COURT

MARCIANO PLATA, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 4:01-cv-01351-JST

 THREE-JUDGE COURT

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ 

UNOPPOSED MOTION TO MODIFY 

FEBRUARY 10, 2014 ORDER (ECF NO. 

2766/5060) TO REDUCE FREQUENCY 

OF STATUS REPORTS FROM 

MONTHLY TO QUARTERLY

The Court grants Defendants’ unopposed motion to reduce the frequency of its status 

reports from monthly to quarterly. The Court agrees this reduced frequency is appropriate 

because Defendants have been in compliance with the 137.5% population cap for over seven 

years, CDCR’s adult prison population remains below that cap, information in Defendants’ 

monthly reports generally does not change significantly from one month to the next, and current 

population data is readily available on CDCR’s public website.

Accordingly, it is ordered that paragraph 5 of this Court’s February 10, 2014 order (ECF 

No. 2766/5060)

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is amended to read: “Defendants will report to this Court quarterly on the status 

1 All filings in this Three-Judge Court are included in the individual docket sheets of both Plata v. 

Newsom, No. 01-cv-01351-JST (N.D. Cal.) and Coleman v. Newsom, No. 2:90-cv-00520-KJMDB (E.D. Cal.). The Court cites to the docket number of Plata first, then Coleman.

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of measures being taken to reduce the prison population, and on the current in-state and out-ofstate adult prison populations. Reports shall be submitted on the 15th of March, June, September, 

and December of each year until further order of the Court.”

Additionally, so that the mechanism for reducing an adult prison population that remains 

above the 137.5% cap for two consecutive months remains workable in a quarterly reporting 

scheme, it is ordered that the second sentence of paragraph 7 of the same order is amended to 

read: “During this period after compliance with the final benchmark and before such compliance 

is durable, if the adult prison population is above 137.5% design capacity for two consecutive 

months, CDCR shall notify the Court, and the Compliance Officer shall, within seven days, direct 

the release of the number of inmates necessary to bring the prison population to 137.5% design 

capacity.”2

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 25, 2022 ________________________________________

KIM McLANE WARDLAW

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE

NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

Dated: March 25, 2022 ________________________________________

KIMBERLY MUELLER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Dated: March 25, 2022 ________________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

2 This order makes no findings regarding whether Defendants’ compliance with the benchmark is 

durable.

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