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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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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER WAIVING STATE LAW RE: CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY 

DONALD SPECTER – 083925 

STEVEN FAMA – 099641 

PRISON LAW OFFICE 

1917 Fifth Street 

Berkeley, California 94710-1916 

Telephone: (510) 280-2621 

MICHAEL W. BIEN – 096891 

ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 

JANE E. KAHN – 112239 

LISA ELLS – 243657 

AARON J. FISCHER – 247391 

LAURA BOYSEN-ARAGON – 248083 

ROSEN, BIEN & GALVAN, LLP 

315 Montgomery Street, Tenth Floor 

San Francisco, California 94104-1823 

Telephone: (415) 433-6830 

CLAUDIA CENTER – 158255 

THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY – 

EMPLOYMENT LAW CENTER 

180 Montgomery Street, Suite 600 

San Francisco, California 94104-4244 

Telephone: (415) 864-8848 

WARREN E. GEORGE – 053588 

BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, California 94111-4066 

Telephone: (415) 393-2000 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN, Jr., et al., 

Defendants.1

 Case No. Civ S 90-0520 LKK-JFM 

STIPULATION AND ORDER WAIVING 

STATE LAW RE: CALIFORNIA 

MEDICAL FACILITY 

 

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 The names of Defendants currently serving and their official capacities have been 

substituted pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 25. 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER WAIVING STATE LAW RE: CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY 

On November 9, 2011, Defendants filed an ex parte request that this Court waive 

state licensing requirements so that the California Department of Corrections and 

Rehabilitation can convert 113 cells in the L-Wing at California Medical Facility into 110 

temporary unlicensed Intermediate Care Facility level of care beds and three observation 

and restraint rooms for high custody inmate-patients on the Salinas Valley Psychiatric 

Program wait list. 

The Court recognizes that it has not previously permitted Defendants to operate a 

DMH inpatient care facility on an unlicensed basis. The Court further recognizes, 

however, that given the urgent need by class members for access to timely inpatient 

psychiatric care, state licensing requirements must temporarily give way on an emergency 

basis. 

Accordingly, Defendants will be permitted to convert and open the L-Wing 

inpatient beds without complying with state licensing standards on an emergency, 

temporary basis, on the expedited schedule outlined by Defendants at page 7 of their 

October 18, 2011 Supplemental Plan to Reduce or Eliminate the Inpatient Waitlists 

(Docket No. 4103). To the extent that any delays in complying with their proposed 

conversion timeline are discovered, Defendants will be required to promptly notify the 

parties, the Special Master, and the Court. Defendants are further ordered to staff the LWing at the same nursing and clinical staffing levels as the other high custody ICF at 

CMF, as they propose. Id.; Defendants’ Request for Waiver of State Licensing 

Requirements Re: California Medical Facility (Docket No. 4112) at n.1. Finally, the 

waivers of state law ordered herein are necessary until the 432 high custody ICF beds 

planned as part of the California Health Care Facility in Stockton are fully occupied. See 

Defendants’ Response re: New Activation Schedule for the Consolidated Care Center 

(Docket No. 3794–1) at 4. 

Furthermore, the Special Master has been consulted on this matter and he concurs 

on this stipulation. 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER WAIVING STATE LAW RE: CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY 

Good cause presented to the Court and good cause appearing, the Court waives the 

below described licensing requirements so that the California Department of Corrections 

and Rehabilitation can convert the 113 cells in the L-Wing at California Medical Facility 

into 110 temporary unlicensed Intermediate Care Facility beds and three observation and 

restraint rooms. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: 

1. The following state licensing requirements shall be waived, on a temporary 

and emergency basis, with the respect to the 110 temporary Intermediate Care Facility 

beds and three observation and restraint rooms in the L-Wing at California Medical 

Facility: 

 A. California Health and Safety Code section 1250(j); and 

 B. California Code of Regulations, Title 22, sections 79501–79861. 

2. Defendants shall staff the L-Wing utilizing the same nursing and clinical 

staffing patterns as the other high custody ICF unit at CMF. 

3. Defendants shall apprise the Court promptly should any delays prevent the 

L-Wing conversion from being completed as to L-3 by April 6, 2012, as to L-2 by April 

30, 2012, and as to L-1 by May 31, 2012. Defendants are further required to apprise the 

Court promptly should patient admissions not commence by April 30, 2012. 

DATED: November 15, 2011 /s/ David Brice

 David Brice 

Office of the Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DATED: November 15, 2011 /s/ Aaron J. Fischer

 Aaron J. Fischer 

Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

SO ORDERED. 

DATED: November 16, 2011 

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