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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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Order on Stipulated Request For Extension of Time to File Consolidated Program Guide (2:90-cv-00520 KJM-DB 

(PC))

XAVIER BECERRA

Attorney General of California 

MONICA N. ANDERSON

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

DANIELLE F. O’BANNON

JAY C. RUSSELL

DAMON G. MCCLAIN

Supervising Deputy Attorneys General 

ELISE OWENS THORN, State Bar No. 145931 

ANDREW M. GIBSON, State Bar No. 244330 

CHAD A. STEGEMAN, State Bar No. 225745 

TYLER V. HEATH, State Bar No. 271478 

Deputy Attorneys General 

1300 I Street, Suite 125 

P.O. Box 944255 

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 

Telephone: (619) 738-9549 

Fax: (916) 324-5205 

E-mail: Andrew.Gibson@doj.ca.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs,

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., 

Defendants.

2:90-cv-00520 KJM-DB (PC) 

STIPULATED REQUEST AND ORDER 

FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE 

THE CONSOLIDATED PROGRAM 

GUIDE 

The Parties to the above-captioned case, through their counsel, stipulate as follows: 

1. On December 15, 2017, to “ensure the parties and the court all agree on the contents of 

the Program Guide,” the Court ordered the parties to file, “[o]n or before March 31, 2018...a 

current consolidated Program Guide incorporating all modifications required by court orders 

issued since March 2006.” (ECF No. 5750 at 4.) The order requires the update to the Program 

Guide to “be completed under the supervision of the Special Master.” (Id.) 

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2. On January 17, 2018, Defendants provided the Special Master and Plaintiffs with a set 

of twenty-seven policies and procedures that, in Defendants’ estimation, constitute the full 

universe of policies and procedures required by court orders that modify the 2009 Program Guide. 

3. In response to Defendants’ January 17, 2018 submission, during the All Parties’ 

Workgroup on January 18, 2018, the parties and the Special Master discussed Plaintiffs’ and the 

Special Master’s concerns about the scope of the policies Defendants provided in response to the 

Court’s December 15 Order. On March 13, 2018, Plaintiffs commented on the policies provided 

on January 17 and reiterated their objection to Defendants’ interpretation of the December 15 

Order’s scope. 

4. At the Special Master’s and Plaintiffs’ request, Defendants provided the Special Master 

and Plaintiffs with a set of sixty-eight policies on March 21, 2018, including twenty-seven 

policies Defendants consider to be Court-ordered, as well as, forty-one additional policies that 

modify the mental health program. In doing so, Defendants objected that these forty-one 

additional policies are not contemplated by the Court’s order and Defendants object to their 

inclusion in a Program Guide addendum. Specifically, Defendants maintain: (a) the Court’s 

December 15, 2017 order is limited to court-ordered policies that modify the terms of the current 

Program Guide and thus excludes policies that were not court-ordered; and (b) the inclusion of 

sixty-eight additional mental health policies that change or add to the terms of the 2009 Program 

Guide could potentially subject each of the department’s policies to a perfect compliance standard 

that was not contemplated when the policies were implemented and that is stricter than legally 

required. Defendants did not appeal the December 15, 2017 order based on this reading of the 

order’s plain language. Defendants contend that requiring every mental health policy to be part 

of the Program Guide may preclude CDCR from ever modifying any mental health policy or 

procedure as circumstances warrant based on the Court’s October 10, 2017 order, which prohibits 

any material alterations to the Program Guide (Order, ECF No. 5710 at 17-18). Further, this issue 

is a subject of Defendants’ pending appeal before the Ninth Circuit, and Defendants contend that 

this Court lacks jurisdiction to materially alter the Program Guide until that appeal is resolved. 

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5. Plaintiffs disagree with Defendants’ objections and contend that Defendants’ reading of 

the Court’s December 15 Order is overly narrow, and disagree with the positions Defendants have 

taken in their appeal of the October 10, 2017 order. 

6. Because the vast majority of the policies were produced less than a week ago, Plaintiffs 

have not yet had an opportunity to fully review Defendants’ list of policies. Based on their 

preliminary review, however, Plaintiffs are concerned that the list of sixty-eight policies remains 

materially incomplete to provide the basis for a “current consolidated Program Guide” as required 

by the Court’s December 15 Order. 

7. The parties have conferred and agree that additional time is necessary to allow the 

Special Master and parties sufficient time to review and discuss the full complement of policies 

provided by Defendants to date, as identified by the Court’s December 15 Order, in order to reach 

agreement on the consolidated Program Guide to be ultimately filed with the Court. 

8. The parties propose to file the current consolidated Program Guide on May 30, 2018, 

rather than on or before March 31, 2018, as is currently required by the Court’s order. The parties 

have also conferred with the Special Master, and he has no objection to the parties’ stipulated 

request. 

Therefore, the parties, in agreement with the Special Master, jointly request that the 

deadline for the parties to file the current consolidated Program Guide be extended to May 30, 

2018. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: March 30, 2018 XAVIER BECERRA

Attorney General of California 

/s/ Andrew M. Gibson 

ANDREW M. GIBSON

Deputy Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendants 

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Dated: March 30, 2018 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP

/s/Krista Stone Manista 

KRISTA STONE-MANISTA

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

* * * 

ORDER 

Almost a year ago, the court acknowledged and encouraged a process that had begun to 

update the Program Guide “to incorporate modifications required by court orders issued since 

March 2006” as “a necessary step toward completion of a full and final remedy, with a userfriendly comprehensive Program Guide.” ECF No. 5610 at 6 n.3. The need for completion of 

that process was apparent during a September 28, 2017 hearing, where the issues raised revealed 

conflicts in interpretation of provisions of the Program Guide governing transfer timelines to 

mental health crisis beds (MHCBs), and, in addition, suggested defendants are using an updated 

alternative housing policy not yet incorporated into the Program Guide in connection with MHCB 

referrals. See, e.g., ECF No. 5707 at, e.g., 35-37. 

In an order filed November 6, 2017, the court directed the parties to be prepared, by a 

December 20, 2017 status conference, to say when the updated version of the Program Guide 

would be filed with the court. ECF No. 5726 at 10. When the December 20, 2017 status 

conference was vacated, the court set a deadline of March 31, 2018 for filing the updated version 

of the Program Guide. ECF No. 5750 at 4. The court was explicit: “This update to the Program 

Guide shall be completed under the supervision of the Special Master.” Id. 

The additional time the parties request will significantly extend their time to complete and 

submit the updated version of the Program Guide. This is so even though the Program Guide, by 

its terms, requires annual updates. See Program Guide, 2009 Revision, at 12-1-17, 12-1-18. The 

stipulation notes there are disputes over what belongs in the updated Program Guide. It is of 

course premature for the court to resolve disputes that are not ripe and that may still be resolved 

by the parties themselves. 

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The above said, the court will grant the requested extension of time with the following 

clarifications. Going forward, consistent with their obligations under the Order of Reference, 

ECF No. 640, defendants shall provide to the Special Master all documents and any other 

material he requests. The Special Master shall, consistent with his duties under the Order of 

Reference and the Court’s December 15, 2017 order, ECF No. 5750, closely supervise the 

process of updating and consolidating the Program Guide. The final version of the updated 

Program Guide shall be presented to the court by the Special Master and shall meet his 

requirements for what should be included therein. Once the Special Master presents the updated 

Program Guide to the court, the parties will be granted an opportunity to file objections, if any, to 

matters that are included or omitted from the updated Program Guide. 

The joint request for extension of time is GRANTED. The updated Program Guide shall be 

completed in accordance with the requirements of this order and filed on or before May 30, 2018. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: April 9, 2018. 

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