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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 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., et al.,

Defendants. 

No. CIV. S-90-520 LKK/DAD (PC) 

ORDER 

On March 3, 2014, plaintiffs filed a request for judicial 

notice (ECF No. 5093). Plaintiffs’ request, made in support of 

their pending motion concerning housing and treatment of class 

members in segregation units (ECF No. 4580), is that the court 

take judicial notice of two documents. The first is a December 

2013 report of the California Office of the Inspector General 

entitled Special Review: Female Inmates Serving Security Housing 

Unit Terms in the California Department of Corrections and 

Rehabilitation. Ex. A to Pls. Req. for Judicial Notice (ECF No. 

5093). The second is an email to the Special Master notifying 

him of the February 24, 2014 suicide of class member in an 

administrative segregation unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. Both 

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are proper subjects for judicial notice, see Fed. R. Evid. 201, 

and both are relevant to issues raised by the pending motion. 

 Accordingly, good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED 

that: 

1. Plaintiffs’ March 3, 2014 request for judicial notice 

(ECF No. 5093) is granted; 

2. Proceedings on plaintiffs’ motion concerning housing and 

treatment of class members in segregation units (ECF No. 

4580) are reopened and Exhibits A and B to plaintiffs’ 

March 3, 2014 request for judicial notice are admitted 

into evidence in the proceedings on said motion; 

3. Defendants are granted fifteen days from the date of 

this order to respond to the newly admitted evidence. In 

said response, defendants shall inform the court in 

writing what, if any, steps they plan to take in response 

to the recommendations contained in the Office of 

Inspector General’s Report. 

DATED: March 5, 2014. 

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