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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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[3556050.1] STIPULATION AND ORDER TO ADD ADDITIONAL NAMED PLAINTIFFS 

DONALD SPECTER – 083925 

STEVEN FAMA – 099641 

MARGOT MENDELSON – 268583 

PRISON LAW OFFICE 

1917 Fifth Street 

Berkeley, California 94710-1916 

Telephone: (510) 280-2621 

CLAUDIA CENTER – 158255 

DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION 

AND DEFENSE FUND, INC. 

Ed Roberts Campus 

3075 Adeline Street, Suite 210 

Berkeley, California 94703-2578 

Telephone: (510) 644-2555 

MICHAEL W. BIEN – 096891 

JEFFREY L. BORNSTEIN – 099358 

ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 

THOMAS NOLAN – 169692 

LISA ELLS – 243657 

JENNY S. YELIN – 273601 

MICHAEL S. NUNEZ – 280535 

JESSICA WINTER – 294237 

MARC J. SHINN-KRANTZ – 312968 

CARA E. TRAPANI – 313411 

ALEXANDER GOURSE – 321631 

AMY XU – 330707 

ROSEN BIEN 

GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP 

101 Mission Street, Sixth Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105-1738 

Telephone: (415) 433-6830 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 

Defendants. 

 Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-DB 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO ADD 

ADDITIONAL NAMED PLAINTIFFS 

Judge: Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER TO ADD ADDITIONAL NAMED PLAINTIFFS 

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 21, courts have the authority to add 

parties “at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 21; see 

also Graves v. Walton Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 686 F.2d 1135, 1138 (5th Cir. 1982) (affirming 

district court’s decision to allow substitution of additional plaintiffs for original named 

plaintiffs in school desegregation case); cf. Bain v. Cal. Teachers Ass’n, 891 F.3d 1206, 

1217 (9th Cir. 2018) (explaining that in cases where a class has been certified, courts have 

“authority to replace a party with a new one once the case becomes moot”). Currently, the 

sole named plaintiff in this action who remains in CDCR custody is Ralph Coleman 

(C09970), a Coleman class member at the Correctional Clinical Case Management System 

(“CCCMS”) level of care currently housed at the California State Prison, Solano. On 

June 10, 2020, Plaintiffs’ counsel wrote to counsel for Defendants and identified class 

members Peter Cockcroft (H86887), Ernesto Venegas (F71732), and Julio Garza (T23444) 

as proposed additional named class representatives in addition to Mr. Coleman given their 

longstanding participation in the Mental Health Services Delivery System (“MHSDS”) and 

their willingness to represent the class. 

The parties have met and conferred and agree that the Court should allow these 

three class members to be added as named plaintiffs to represent the Coleman class. 

Accordingly, the parties request that the Court enter an order adding class members Peter 

Cockcroft, Ernesto Venegas, and Julio Garza as additional named plaintiffs in this ongoing 

class action pursuant to Rule 21 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER TO ADD ADDITIONAL NAMED PLAINTIFFS 

DATED: August 18, 2020 Respectfully submitted, 

ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP 

By: /s/ Lisa Ells 

 Lisa Ells 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DATED: August 18, 2020 XAVIER BECERRA 

Attorney General of California 

By: /s/ Kyle Lewis 

 Kyle Lewis 

Deputy Attorney General 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

ORDER 

Pursuant to the foregoing stipulation, the Court hereby grants the parties’ request to 

add Coleman class members Peter Cockcroft, Ernesto Venegas, and Julio Garza as 

additional named plaintiffs in this ongoing class action. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 18, 2020 

 

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