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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 have also provided the name and job descriptions of the people who are

responsible for insuring compliance with the June 28, 2007 order.

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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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By order filed June 28, 2007, defendants were directed to file within thirty days a

plan for making available up to 125 intermediate care beds for Coleman class members referred

to Atascadero State Hospital (ASH), said plan to include staffing and a date certain for its

implementation not later than sixty days from the date of the June 28, 2007 order. Defendants

were directed to include with their report the name and job description of the person having

immediate responsibility for insuring compliance with the court’s order.

On July 27, 2007, defendants timely filed their plan.1 The plan provides that the

census of Coleman class members in intermediate care beds at ASH “can” be raised from the

current population of 58 to 125 class members by December 14, 2007, based on a rate of

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admission of four inmates per week. (Ex. 1 to Defendants’ Response to Court Order Re: Plan to

Activate 125 Beds at Atascadero State Hospital, filed July 27, 2007, at ¶ Ic.) 

Defendants’ plan appears to take seriously the finding in this court’s June 28,

2007 order that the declining Coleman population at ASH was unacceptable. (Order, filed June

28, 2007, at 2-3.) The plan does contain a number of caveats. Given the urgent need for

intermediate care beds for Coleman class members, the court will require defendants to provide

an interim report to the court on the status of ASH admissions for Coleman class members under

the plan. The report, which shall be filed on or before October 12, 2007, shall include the

following:

• the total number of Coleman class members in need of intermediate

inpatient care reviewed for admission to ASH during the eight-week

period from August 6, 2007 through September 28, 2007;

• the number of Coleman class members admitted to ASH during that eightweek period; 

• the total Coleman population at ASH as of September 28, 2007; and

• if any Coleman class members were denied admission to ASH during the

period from August 6, 2007 through September 28, 2007, the reason(s) for

such denial. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 2, 2007.

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