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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM DB P 

ORDER 

As required by the court’s February 28, 2023 order, ECF No. 7742, defendants have for 

three consecutive months filed monthly vacancy reports identifying vacancy rates in psychiatrist, 

psychologist, clinical social worker, recreation therapist and medical assistant positions at each 

prison institution in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and 

systemwide, as well as the total number of vacant positions in each classification that must be 

filled to comply with the court’s October 10, 2017 order, as modified, and the monthly fines that 

have accumulated under the February 28, 2023 order. See ECF Nos. 7789, 7824, 7849. Each 

report shows an accumulation of fines that have exceeded $6,700,000.00 each month. See ECF 

Nos. 7789 at 23 ($6,944,487.00 for February 2023), 7824 at 23 ($6,715,433.00 for March 2023), 

7849 at 23 ($6,814,912.00 for April 2023). Fines totaling $20,272,832.00 have accumulated to 

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date. ECF No. 7849 at 23. In accordance with the February 28, 2023 order, the court will set this 

matter for hearing on findings of contempt and payment of accumulated fines. ECF No. 7742 at 

7. 

To that end the parties will be directed to meet and confer and within twenty-one days of 

the filed date of this order propose to the court a proposed date not later than December 15, 2023 

for hearing regarding contempt findings and payment of accumulated fines, a schedule for 

providing the court with their positions regarding the substance of the hearing, and a plan for the 

proceedings. 

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

1. Within twenty-one days of the filed date of this order the parties shall meet and confer 

and file a joint statement that includes a proposed date not later than 

December 15, 2023 for hearing on contempt findings and payment of accumulated 

fines, a schedule for providing the court with their positions regarding the subject 

matter of the hearing, and a plan for the proceedings. 

2. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve a courtesy copy of this order on: 

Kerry K. Dean, Deputy Chief 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Rights Division 

Special Litigation Section 

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20530 

DATED: June 8, 2023. 

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