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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 Extend. Time to Respond to the Special Master’s Report (2:90-cv-00520 KJM-DB (PC)) 

XAVIER BECERRA

ATTORNEY GENERAL

WILLIAM C. KWONG

ACTING SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL

DANIELLE F. O’BANNON

JAY C. RUSSELL

Supervising Deputy Attorneys General 

ELISE OWENS THORN, State Bar No. 145931 

MANEESH SHARMA, State Bar No. 280084 

CHRISTINE M. CICCOTTI, State Bar No. 238695 

CHAD STEGEMAN, State Bar No. 225745 

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-DB (PC) 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

EXTENDING THE TIME TO RESPOND 

TO THE SPECIAL MASTER’S REPORT 

ON THE STATUS OF MENTAL 

HEALTH STAFFING AND THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF DEFENDANTS’ 

STAFFING PLAN 

The parties stipulate as follows: 

On February 6, 2017, the Special Master filed his Report on the Status of Mental Health 

Staffing and the Implementation of Defendants’ Staffing Plan. (ECF No. 5564.) 

Under Rule 53(f)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the parties have 21 days to 

move to reject or modify a special master report. The current deadline to object to or move to 

modify the February 6 report is February 27, 2017. The parties have conferred and agree that 

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additional time is necessary to prepare and file their respective responses to the Special Master’s 

February 6 report. 

The Special Master has indicated that he does not object to the parties’ stipulation to extend 

the time to respond to the February 6 report. 

The parties therefore stipulate that the time for the parties to file responses to the Special 

Master’s Report on the Status of Mental Health Staffing and the Implementation of Defendants’ 

Staffing Plan should be extended 31 days, until March 30, 2017. 

Dated: February 21, 2017 Respectfully submitted, 

XAVIER BECERRA

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 

The court first notes there is a difference between the 21 day period in Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 53(f)(2) and the ten day period in Section C of the Order of Reference filed December 

11, 1995, ECF No. 640 at 8. The parties’ filing reflects they assume the former controls the 

deadline for filing responses to the Special Master’s February 6, 2017 Report on the Status of 

Mental Health Staffing and the Implementation of Defendants’ Staffing Plan (Staffing Report), 

ECF No. 5564. If the Order of Reference controls, responses were due February 17, 2017. See

Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a)(1). In view of the parties’ agreement that the time for responses should be 

extended to March 30, 2017, and the Special Master’s concurrence with this agreement, the court 

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need not resolve which period controls, or whether the stipulation was filed before or after the 

time for filing responses has expired. Cf. Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1); L.R. 144(d) (E.D.Cal.). The 

stipulation to extend until March 30, 2017 the time for the parties to file responses to the Special 

Master’s Staffing Report is APPROVED. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 23, 2017

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