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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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 Defendants identify this order as the court’s May 31, 2007 order. That is the date on

which the order was signed.

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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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Defendants have filed a request for an extension of time to comply with this

court’s order filed June 1, 20071

 requiring defendants to “submit a plan that will satisfy their

need for sufficient small exercise yards to meet Title 15 exercise requirements for inmates in

administrative segregation.” Order, filed June 1, 2007, at 3. Plaintiffs oppose defendants’

request, contending that defendants’ request does not refer to all the small exercise yards

required by the findings underlying the June 1, 2007 order. 

In the June 1, 2007 order, this court adopted the finding of the special master that

defendants need a total of 1,480 small exercise yards in administrative segregation and that, at

present, they only have 719 such yards. Of the 761 exercise yards that remain to be designed

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and/or built, as of the June 1, 2007 order, 86 were under construction and defendants were then

“seeking legislative authority to fund 179 additional yards in fiscal year 2007/08.” Order, filed

June 1, 2007, at 2. This left a total of 496 yards for which no planning had apparently begun. 

Defendants have submitted a declaration in support of their request for extension

of time. Therein, the declarant avers that “[a] plan to build an additional 262 yards is being

created.” (Declaration of Deborah Hysen in Support of Defendants’ Ex Parte Request for

Extension of Time re: Small Management Yards, filed August 29, 2007, at ¶ 6.) Ms. Hysen’s

declaration subsequently refers to “a schedule for design and construction of the remaining small

management yards.” (Id. at ¶ 8.) It is unclear to which yards the latter sentence refers. 

Absent clear evidence to the contrary, the court presumes and anticipates that

defendants intend to comply in full with the June 1, 2007 order and to submit planning for all

496 small exercise yards for which planning is still required. On that basis, and good cause

appearing, defendants’ request for extension of time will be granted. 

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

1. Defendants’ August 29, 2007 request for extension of time is granted; and

2. Defendants are granted forty-five days from the date of this order in which to

submit a plan for sufficient small exercise yards as required by this court’s June 1, 2007 order. 

DATED: September 14, 2007.

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