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Parties Involved:
Scott Frauenheim
Respondent
Daniel A. Smith
Petitioner

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United States District Court 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DANIEL A. SMITH, 

 Petitioner, 

 vs. 

SCOTT FRAUENHEIM, 

 Respondent. 

Case No. C 16-2287 JSW (PR) 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL 

 Petitioner, a California prisoner at Pleasant Valley State Prison, filed this pro se 

petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He has paid the filing fee. 

Petitioner claims that the conditions of his prison violate the Eighth Amendment 

because of overcrowding. He contends that the overcrowding violates an order issued in 

the class action Plata v. Schwarzenegger, No. C 01-01351 TEH (N.D. Cal. filed 2001). He 

seeks immediate release from prison. 

 In Plata, a three-judge court ordered the State of California to reduce the prison 

population to 137.5% of the prisons’ design capacity within two years, which, absent 

compliance through other means, would require releasing some prisoners before their full 

sentences have been served. See Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910, 1928 (2011). The State 

appealed the order of the three-judge court and the Supreme Court affirmed the remedial 

order, directing the State to implement the order “without further delay.” Id. at 1947. 

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