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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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Since Defendants stipulated at the Trial Confirmation 1

Hearing held on March 31, 2006, that they acted under color of

state law, that element has been omitted from closing instruction

number 6. Additionally, because Defendants acknowledge in their

motions in limine that the only “remaining issue for trial is

whether Defendants were deliberately indifferent to Plaintiff’s

need for exercise when Defendants maintained a lockdown of

Plaintiff and the Southern Hispanic inmates from January 2000 to

October 2000[,]” the objective element of Plaintiff’s claim is

found satisfied. See Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122 (9th Cir.

2000) (denial of outdoor exercise to prisoner for six-and-onehalf weeks meets the Eighth Amendment’s objective requirement of

“depriv[ing] an inmate of the minimal civilized measure of life’s

necessities”) (internal quotation omitted). 

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RAJ CHRISTOPHER GUPTA, )

) 2:00-cv-1095-GEB-GGH-P

Plaintiff, )

) TRANSMISSION TO PARTIES

v. ) OF TRIAL DOCUMENTS

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C.A. TERHUNE, et al., )

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Defendants. )

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The jury trial in this case commences at 1:30 p.m. on May 9,

2006. Appended to this Order are tentative jury instructions, voir 1

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The attached voir dire reflects that Plaintiff’s objection 2

to question number seven as it appeared in the Supplement to

Pretrial Order filed April 3, 2006, has been sustained. 

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dire, and verdict forms. 2

Dated: May 3, 2006

/s/ Garland E. Burrell, Jr.

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

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