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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT COMPOSED OF THREE JUDGES 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 2284, TITLE 28 UNITED STATES CODE

RALPH COLEMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,

et al.,

Defendants.

NO. CIV S-90-0520 LKK JFM P

THREE-JUDGE COURT

MARCIANO PLATA, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,

et al.,

Defendants.

NO. C01-1351 TEH

THREE-JUDGE COURT

ORDER

On November 26, 2007, the parties filed a joint statement regarding a discovery

dispute that has arisen concerning discovery propounded by defendants to several named

plaintiffs in Plata v. Schwarzenegger and to one named plaintiff in Coleman v.

Schwarzenegger. The court heard oral argument on the dispute at a telephonic conference on

November 27, 2007. Alison Hardy, Esq., participated as counsel for plaintiffs. Anne

Johnson, Esq., participated as counsel for defendants.

Defendants have served on several named plaintiffs a set of interrogatories and a

request for production of documents, and they have noticed the deposition of five named

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 Following the hearing, the court contacted counsel for the Receiver and provided to

him the names and CDC numbers of three inmates whose medical records plaintiffs have

been unable to obtain to date.

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plaintiffs. Plaintiffs seek a protective order from the requested discovery; defendants seek to

compel compliance therewith. 

After consideration of the joint statement filed by the parties, the documents filed in

connection therewith, and the arguments of counsel, the court made the following orders and

announced them to the parties.

Plaintiffs’ motion for a protective order regarding the noticed depositions is denied. 

The depositions shall proceed as scheduled unless the time therefor is changed by agreement

of counsel. All depositions of named plaintiffs will be used for purposes of this litigation

only.

Defendants’ motion to compel further responses to the interrogatories and requests for

production of documents propounded to the named plaintiffs, as refined by agreement of the

parties, is granted. Plaintiffs shall serve further responses to these discovery requests within

two weeks from the date of the hearing.1

 All responses to these discovery requests will be

used for purposes of this litigation only.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 27, 2007.

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