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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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PRISON LAW OFFICE 

DONALD SPECTER Bar No.: 83925 

STEVEN FAMA Bar No.: 99641 

KEITH WATTLEY Bar No.: 203366 

General Delivery 

San Quentin, California 94964 

Telephone: (415) 457-9144 

BINGHAM, McCUTCHEN, LLP 

WARREN E. GEORGE Bar No.: 53588 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 393-2000 

ROSEN, BIEN & ASARO, LLP 

MICHAEL W. BIEN Bar No.: 096891 

JANE E. KAHN Bar No.: 112239 

THOMAS NOLAN Bar No.: 169692 

155 Montgomery Street, 8th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 433-6830 

HELLER, EHRMAN, WHITE & 

McAULIFFE 

RICHARD L. GOFF Bar No.: 36377 

701 Fifth Avenue 

Seattle, Washington 98104 

Telephone: (206) 447-0900 

THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY– 

EMPLOYMENT LAW CENTER 

CLAUDIA CENTER Bar No.: 158255 

LEWIS BOSSING Bar No.: 227402 

600 Harrison Street, Suite 120 

San Francisco, CA 94107 

Telephone: (415) 864-8848 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, et al., 

Defendants 

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No.: Civ S 90-0520 LKK-JFM 

ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANTS’ 

REVISED PROGRAM GUIDE 

 

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The Special Master’s Report and Recommendations on Defendants’Revised Program 

Guide was filed on February 3, 2006. Defendants filed the January 2006 Revised Program 

Guide on February 3, 2006. Defendants filed limited objections to the Special Master’s Report 

on February 14, 2006, concerning issues of classification and disability discrimination. 

Plaintiffs filed objections on February 17, 2006, listing and clarifying their remaining 

objections to the January 2006 Revised Program Guide. The court has reviewed the Special 

Master’s Report and the objections to the Report filed by the parties. 

Good cause appearing, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

1. The court hereby approves the undisputed provisions of the January 2006 

Revised Program Guide, and orders defendants to immediately implement all such provisions. 

2. The following disputed sections of the Revised Program Guide would, if 

implemented, reduce the amount of care currently mandated by the 1997 Program Guides. As 

to these disputed sections, the requirements of the 1997 Program Guide shall continue to apply 

until plaintiffs’ objections have been heard and decided: 

a. On page 12-7-4 of the Revised Program Guide, the defendants’ proposed 

reduction in daily psych tech rounding for non-MHSDS inmates in administrative 

segregation to once a week rounds. The 1997 Program Guide requirement of daily 

rounds shall continue to apply. 

b. On page 12-7-6 of the Revised Program Guide, the defendants’ proposed 

reduction in individual clinical case management contacts for 3CMS inmates housed in 

administrative segregation to every other week clinical contacts. The 1997 Program 

Guides requirement of weekly clinical contacts shall continue to apply. 

3. Plaintiffs have filed and maintained objections to various additional provisions in 

the Revised Program Guides. Defendants are hereby ordered to immediately implement these 

sections of the Revised Program Guide, even though they remain in dispute. These remaining 

disputes are set forth in plaintiffs’ objections. In addition, plaintiffs request that certain 

additional requirements be added to the Revised Program Guide. Good cause appearing, this 

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matter is set for status conference on April 26, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. in Courtroom # 4 to 

determine an appropriate procedure for hearing plaintiffs’ objections and scheduling these 

remaining issues for resolution. 

4. The special master and the parties are directed to finalize the provisions of the 

Program Guide related to the review of psychiatrist qualifications, staffing ratios, CPR and 

video monitoring within 30 days from the date of this order. The parties are also directed to 

report to the court concerning the resolution of those matters within 45 days from the date of 

this order. 

DATED: March 2, 2006. 

/s/Lawrence K. Karlton

 Lawrence K. Karlton 

Senior Judge 

United States District Court 

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