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Nature of Suit Code: 441
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Voting
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSE BONILLA and RAFAEL )

RIVERA, )

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Plaintiffs, )

v. )

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ANNE BARNETT, COUNTY OF KERN, )

AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR )

COUNTY OF KERN, )

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Defendants. )

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CIV F 06-375 AWI SMS

ORDER SETTING HEARING

DATE OF APRIL 7, 2006, ON

PLAINTIFFS’S MOTION FOR

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING

ORDER

This is a Voting Rights Act case brought by Plaintiffs against Kern County and Kern

County officials regarding a ballot initiative, the “Keep Kern Clean Ordinance of 2006” (“the

initiative”), that is to appear on the June 6, 2006, ballot. Plaintiffs contend that the Voting Rights

Act has been violated, as explained by the recent Ninth Circuit case of Padilla v. Lever, 429 F.3d

910 (9th Cir. 2005). Plaintiffs indicate that the Defendants will send the ballots to the printer on

April 7, 2006. Plaintiffs seek a Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”) and Preliminary

Injunction forbidding Defendants from “processing, certifying, and/or placing [the initiative] on

any election ballot, without first circulating the initiative and its statutory required title and

summary in Spanish in compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Plaintiffs’s Proposed

Temporary Restraining Order. In the electronic filing docket entry, Plaintiffs indicate that a

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hearing on the TRO will be on April 7, 2006, at 8:00 a.m. Court’s Docket Document No. 2. 

This date does not appear on the Court’s calendar. However, given the representation regarding

the printing of the ballots, the Court will hold a hearing on Plaintiffs’s requested TRO on the

requested date.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The hearing on Plaintiffs’s TRO shall be on Friday, April 7, 2006, at 9:00 a.m. in

Courtroom 2, in the new federal courthouse located at 2500 Tulare St., Fresno, CA;

2. Defendants may file an opposition or notice of non-opposition to the TRO on or by 4:00

p.m., Thursday, April 6, 2006, or, given the time constraints involved, may oppose the

TRO at the hearing; and

3. Plaintiffs are directed to provide notice to Defendants of the hearing on the TRO

IMMEDIATELY upon receipt of this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 5, 2006 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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