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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 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM DB P 

ORDER 

In the parties’ court-ordered March 14, 2023 Joint Statement, ECF No. 7761, plaintiffs 

request clarification regarding whether the court’s February 28, 2023 order, ECF No. 7742, 

covers vacancies in mental health positions in California Department of Corrections and 

Rehabilitation Psychiatric Inpatient Programs (CDCR PIPs). ECF No. 7761 at 5-6. The February 

28, 2023 order applies to CDCR’s 2009 Staffing Plan, ECF No. 3693, and the modifications 

thereto, see ECF No 7742 at 1 n.1. The CDCR PIP Staffing Plan was filed July 21, 2021. ECF 

No. 7245. Although defendants report on vacancies in the CDCR PIPs in their monthly vacancy 

reports, those vacancies are not within the scope of the February 28, 2023 order. The court 

anticipates separate proceedings, as necessary, to ensure a durable staffing remedy for CDCR’s 

PIPs. See, e.g., ECF Nos. 7697, 7758. 

For the sake of clarity, going forward defendants shall report mental health vacancy data 

for positions allocated and filled under the 2009 Staffing Plan and modifications thereto 

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separately from positions allocated and filled under the CDCR PIP Staffing Plan. Defendants 

shall include subtotals by classification for each subgroup (2009 Staffing Plan and CDCR PIP 

Staffing Plan) as well as totals by classification to reflect systemwide fill or vacancy 

rates. Notwithstanding their contention that the medical assistant classification is not part of the 

2009 Staffing Plan, defendants shall continue to report vacancy data for this classification. 

In addition, so that the court may correct page 2 of the February 28, 2023 order at lines 

12-17, defendants shall file WITHIN SEVEN DAYS an amended version of the monthly mental 

health staffing vacancy report filed February 9, 2023, ECF No. 7717. The amended version shall 

report mental health vacancy data for positions allocated and filled under the 2009 Staffing Plan 

and modifications thereto separately from positions allocated and filled under the CDCR PIP 

Staffing Plan, and shall include vacancy data for the medical assistant classification. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 17, 2023. 

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