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Nature of Suit Code: 535
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Death Penalty
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Ptn for Writ of H/C - Stay of Execution

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

CURTIS FLOYD PRICE,

Petitioner,

 vs.

RON DAVIS, Acting Warden of San

Quentin State Prison

Respondent. /

No. C 93-277 PJH 

Death Penalty Case

SCHEDULING ORDER

The Court is in receipt of the parties’ joint statement submitted on April 9, 2015. The

parties have identified 21 record-based claims that can proceed to briefing on the merits

without a request for an evidentiary hearing. Petitioner identified fourteen claims that he

believes warrant an evidentiary hearing and requested an opportunity to brief the basis for

such a hearing. The Court will first address the record-based claims and will take up

petitioner’s request to brief the need for an evidentiary hearing upon resolution of the

record-based claims.

In the interest of efficiency, and in order to avoid oversize briefs, the parties shall

divide the claims into three groups (by grouping together, for example, claims that have the

same factual predicates), and shall file three rounds of briefing, with each brief addressing

no more than seven claims.

Accordingly, by July 24, 2015, petitioner shall file his initial opening brief. The

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response is due on or before August 24, 2015. The optional reply is due within fifteen days

of the date of service of the response. The parties are requested to observe a 30-page

limit for their briefs. A schedule for the second round of merits-based briefing will issue

upon resolution of the first round of briefed claims. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 18, 2015. 

 PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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