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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., et al.,

Defendants. 

No. CIV. S-90-520 LKK/DAD (PC) 

ORDER 

On April 10, 2014 (ECF No. 5131), defendants were ordered to 

work under the guidance of the Special Master to, inter alia, 

revise their use of force policies and procedures and work with 

the Special Master on a timeline for completion of their review 

of the use of management status; to file a plan limiting or 

eliminating altogether placement of class members removed from 

the general population for non-disciplinary reasons in 

administrative segregation units that house inmates removed from 

the general population for disciplinary reasons, and a revised 

policy concerning strip searches in Enhanced Outpatient Unit 

Administrative Segregation Unit (EOP ASU) hubs. Defendants were 

also ordered to report to the court and the Special Master 

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monthly on whether each EOP ASU hub meets the requirements of the 

Program Guide for EOP ASU level of care and prohibitions on 

placement of Coleman class members in non-compliant EOP ASU hubs. 

Id. at 72-74. By order filed May 13, 2014, several relevant 

deadlines set in the order were extended to August 1, 2014. See 

Order filed May 13, 2014 (ECF No. 5150) at 2-3. 

 On August 1, 2014, defendants filed a report on compliance 

with the foregoing requirements of the April 10, 2014 order 

together with the required plans and policies. In particular, 

defendants have filed a revised use of force policy; a new 

statewide management cell status policy; a plan to limit or 

eliminate placement of class members removed from the general 

population for non-disciplinary reasons in administrative 

segregation units that house inmates removed from the general 

population for disciplinary reasons; a plan to report on Program 

Guide compliance for the EOP ASU hubs; and a revised strip search 

policy. 

The court has reviewed defendants’ report and the 

accompanying plans and policies. The court commends the parties 

and the Special Master and his team for the substantial effort 

that resulted in the materials tendered to the court. The court 

agrees with defendants that they have made substantial changes to 

the relevant policies and procedures, and that those changes meet 

the requirements of the April 10, 2014 order.1

 Accordingly, the 

 

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 Defendants have included a request for modification of the April 10, 2014 

order to the extent, if at all, that the court determines any of the plans and 

policies do not comply with the “terms and intent” of the April 10, 2014 

order. Defs. Plans and Policies (ECF No. 5190) at 3. The April 10, 2014 

order prohibits placement of “any class members removed from the general 

population for non-disciplinary reasons for more than seventy-two hours in 

administrative segregation units that house inmates removed from the general 

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plans and policies will be approved. Defendants will be directed 

to implement the plans and policies forthwith consistent with the 

representations in their report. Said implementation shall be 

monitored by the Special Master in accordance with his monitoring 

and reporting duties in this action. 

In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. The plans and policies filed by defendant on August 1, 

2014 are approved. 

2. Defendants shall forthwith, under the guidance of the 

Special Master, implement the plans and policies approved by this 

order consistent with the representations in the report that 

accompanies the plans and policies. 

3. Implementation of the plans and policies approved by 

this order shall be monitored by the Special Master in accordance 

with his monitoring and reporting duties in this action. 

DATED: August 11, 2014. 

 

 

population for disciplinary reasons.” Order filed April 10, 2014 (ECF No. 

5131) at 73. The non-disciplinary segregation policy tendered to the court 

incorporates a maximum ten-day period for classification determinations 

concerning the applicability of non-disciplinary status, with Coleman class 

members’ classification process to be expedited, in addition to the seventytwo hour maximum stay ordered by the court. To the extent modification of the 

order is required for this plan, it is granted. No further modification of 

the April 10, 2014 order are required at this time. 

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