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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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Stip. and Order Extending Time for Pls. to Resp. to Defs.’ Report in Resp. to 8/21/15 Order (ECF No. 5198) (2:90-

cv-00520 KJM KJN PC) 

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California 

JONATHAN L. WOLFF

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

JAY C. RUSSELL

DANIELLE F. O’BANNON

Supervising Deputy Attorneys General 

ELISE OWENS THORN, State Bar No. 145931 

MANEESH SHARMA, State Bar No. 280084 

CHRISTINE M. CICCOTTI, State Bar No. 238695 

Deputy Attorneys General 

1300 I Street, Suite 125 

P.O. Box 944255 

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 

Telephone: (916) 324-4921 

Fax: (916) 324-5205 

E-mail: Elise.Thorn@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 KJN PC 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

EXTENDING THE TIME FOR 

PLAINTIFFS TO RESPOND TO 

DEFENDANTS’ REPORT IN RESPONSE 

TO AUGUST 21, 2015 ORDER 

Judge Kimberly J. Mueller 

 

On August 21, 2015, this Court ordered Defendants to “report to the Court on whether 

regular and consistent use of the full complement of 256 beds at [DSH-Atascadero] designated 

for Coleman class members is sufficient to permanently eliminate the ongoing waitlist for 

inpatient care and if not, why not and what alternative plans are in place for waitlisted class 

members.” (ECF No. 5343.) The Court further ordered that “Plaintiffs may file a written 

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response to defendants’ report within thirty days of the filing of that report.” Id. On October 30, 

2015, Defendants filed their report in response to the August 21, 2015 order. (ECF No. 5374.) 

 Defendants’ report discussed the implementation of Defendants’ new Housing Review 

process as well as a tentative plan to designate a number of High-Custody Intermediate care beds 

as “flex” beds that can accept both Acute and Intermediate level of care patients. (ECF No. 5374-

1.) As indicated in the report, Defendants have informally implemented the new Housing Review 

policy while the Memorandum of Understanding between the California Department of 

Corrections and Rehabilitation and Department of State Hospitals is being finalized. (Id. at 6.) 

Defendants have begun custodial reviews of patients in DSH programs to determine their Least 

Restrictive Housing and are identifying, on a rolling basis, patients custodially eligible for 

movement to lower custody programs. The patients are then evaluated for clinical suitability for 

movement. Defendants have agreed to provide the Special Master with the opportunity to review 

the clinical case reviews completed to date. Plaintiffs have been invited to observe the review 

process. The parties, therefore, seek an extension of time to allow for the Special Master’s 

clinical review to occur, and in turn, for Plaintiffs to file their response to Defendants’ Report in 

Response to August 21, 2015 Order. Defendants have also determined that one or more units at 

DSH-Stockton can be designated as flex units and will activate one of these units on or before 

January 1, 2016. As a result, the parties, with the concurrence of the Special Master, stipulate as 

follows: 

STIPULATION 

1. Plaintiffs shall have thirty days from the date of the Special Master’s final report to the 

parties (in whatever form that report takes), on the results of the Special Master team’s review of 

the selected clinical cases, in which to file a written response, if any, to Defendants’ Report in 

Response to the August 21, 2015 Order. 

2. Defendants may file a reply within thirty days from the filing of Plaintiffs’ written 

response to Defendants’ Report in Response to August 21, 2015 Order. 

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3. Defendants shall designate a High-Custody Intermediate care unit at DSH-Stockton as 

a “flex” unit that can accept both Intermediate and Acute level of care patients as needed and 

shall activate that unit on or before January 1, 2016. 

Dated: November 24, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California 

DANIELLE F. O’BANNON

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

/s/ Elise Owens Thorn 

ELISE OWENS THORN 

Deputy Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendants 

/s/ Michael W. Bien 

MICHAEL W. BIEN

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

ORDER 

As provided by the foregoing stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: December 28, 2015. 

 

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