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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RALPH COLEMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs, No. CIV S-90-0520 LKK JFM P

vs.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,

et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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This matter came on for status conference and hearing on September 22, 2009. 

Michael Bien, Esq., appeared as counsel for plaintiffs. Debbie Vorous, Deputy Attorney

General, appeared as counsel for defendants. After consideration of the papers filed by counsel

and representations made at the time of the hearing, and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY

ORDERED that: 

1. Within thirty days from the date of the hearing, defendants shall file a written

report on the following matters:

a. The status of construction funding and alternative funding sources for

the EOP treatment and office space project at California State Prison-Sacramento, the 72 EOPASU bed project at Salinas Valley State Prison (Salinas Valley), and the related EOP Treatment

Space and general population EOP bed expansion at Salinas Valley. Specifically, defendants

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shall identify all possible sources of funding for each of these projects and every person who is

responsible for any step necessary to secure such funding. Defendants shall also identify the

person or persons with whom final authority for funding these projects rests. 

b. With respect to the 72 EOP ASU bed project at Salinas Valley,

defendants shall report on all alternatives available to effect compliance with this court’s orders

to create these beds and shall identify every person who is responsible for any step necessary to

create these beds. 

c. With respect to the Salinas Valley EOP treatment space and general

population bed expansion project, defendants shall report on any and all steps that may be taken

to expedite this project to offset the delay caused by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee’s

refusal to fund the 72 bed project. Defendants shall identify all persons who have authority to

expedite any part of this project and which part or parts of the project may be expedited.

d. With respect to all of the short-term projects that are scheduled to come

online for the rest of 2009, defendants shall report on the status of staffing for all of these

projects to the extent that staffing for those projects is not covered by the staffing allocation plan

that defendants will file on September 30, 2009. Defendants shall identify all persons

responsible for staffing these projects.

e. Defendants shall describe with specificity any and all steps that might

be taken to expedite completion of the 64 bed project at California Medical Facility and the

conversion of the C5 and C6 units at Salinas Valley. Defendants shall identify all persons who

have authority to expedite any part of these projects and which part or parts of the projects may

be expedited.

To the extent that any response to the foregoing matters is set forth in an

activation schedule that has been or will be provided to the Special Master pursuant to this

court’s June 18, 2009 order, defendants may file the appropriate activation schedule.

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2. Within forty-five days from the date of the hearing, defendants shall file with

the court a detailed long-range plan, including activation schedules. The detailed plan shall

include a schedule with a date certain for completion of each project included in the long-range

plan, a description of every step necessary to complete each of the projects included in the longrange plan, specific timetables by which each such step shall be completed, a list of every state

agency involved in each of the projects included in the long-range plan, the names and addresses

of all persons responsible for approval and/or execution of each stage of such projects, and a

timetable for certification to the Special Master the action or actions taken and whether each of

such projects remains on schedule. The timetables for completion of each step described in the

plan shall be developed in such a way that all projects in the long-range plan will be fully staffed

and activated by the 2013 target date defendants have established. Defendants’ plan shall be

signed by counsel of record in accordance with counsel’s obligations under Federal Rule of Civil

Procedure 11.

3. Within twenty days after defendants file their detailed long-range plan,

plaintiffs may file a response thereto.

4. Defendants shall identify any waivers of state law that may be required to

complete the projects that comprise the long-range plan, either at the time the plan is filed or as

the need for such waiver arises. The burden of requesting any such waiver shall be on the

plaintiffs.

5. The court expects defendants to comply in full with this order. In the event of

material non-compliance, the court will set an evidentiary hearing at which time the court will

hear testimony from any person with knowledge of the reason or reasons for such noncompliance and from any party or agent of any party who has authority to ensure compliance

with this order but who has failed to do so.

6. Paragraph 3(a) of the court’s June 18, 2009 order is hereby modified as

follows: Within ten days of the discovery of any impediment to timely completion of any

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approved short-term or intermediate project, defendants shall notify the Special Master, file a

copy of such notification with the court and serve a copy on counsel for plaintiffs. Defendants

shall include with any such filing a proposed remedy to the impediment, and plaintiffs may file a

response within ten days thereafter. 

7. By their September 23, 2009 notice concerning the 45 additional EOP-ASU

beds at California State Prison-Corcoran, defendants have satisfied their obligation under

paragraph 3(a) of the court’s June 18, 2009 order with respect to the impediment described in the

September 23, 2009 notice. 

DATED: September 24, 2009.

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