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Nature of Suit Code: 535
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Death Penalty
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Case Nos. C 06 219 JF RS & C 06 926 JF RS

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT PREJUDICE JOINT MOTION FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER

(DPSAGOK)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

Michael Angelo MORALES,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

James E. TILTON, Secretary of the California

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and

Robert L. Ayers Jr., Warden of San Quentin State

Prison,

 Defendants.

Case Number C 06 219 JF RS

Case Number C 06 926 JF RS

DEATH-PENALTY CASE

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT

PREJUDICE JOINT MOTION FOR A

PROTECTIVE ORDER

[Docket Nos. 294 & 311]

Defendants and the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a nonparty, have filed a

joint motion for a protective order in the present action. Plaintiff, the Pacific News Service

(which is the plaintiff in the related action of Pacific News Service v. Tilton, No. C 06 1793 JF

RS), and Intervenors The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and McClatchy

Newspapers, Inc., oppose the motion. Sally J. Lieber, the Speaker pro Tempore of the California

State Assembly, seeks leave to intervene to file a brief as amicus curiæ in opposition to the

motion. The Court heard argument on the motion on February 23, 2007.

For the reasons discussed by the Court at oral argument, the motion is denied without

prejudice. The parties and Intervenors agree that no new discovery requests of any kind may be

propounded in the instant action prior to May 15, 2007, or the date Defendants’ revisions to the

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Case Nos. C 06 219 JF RS & C 06 926 JF RS

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT PREJUDICE JOINT MOTION FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER 

(DPSAGOK)

lethal-injection protocol are filed, whichever is earlier, without prior Court approval.

This order does not affect any discovery pending in the instant action as of December 15,

2006, that remains outstanding as of the date of this order, nor does it affect any ongoing or

future discovery proceedings in California State courts.

Good cause appearing therefor, Assemblymember Lieber’s request to intervene as amicus

curiæ is granted.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: March 6, 2007 __________________________________

JEREMY FOGEL

United States District Judge

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