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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 BOBBY WARREN, et al., No. 2:21-cv-0640-DAD-AC 12 Plaintiffs, 13 v. ORDER

14 CITY OF CHICO, et al.,

15 Defendants. 16 17 Defendants City of Chico and Chico Police Department (“defendants”) move to modify 18 and/or interpret the settlement agreement. (ECF No. 243.) The parties appeared before the 19 undersigned for a hearing on October 29, 2025. Katherine Wardrip, Cory Turner, and Sarah 20 Steinheimer appeared for plaintiffs and Ronald Scholar and Tyler Sherman appeared for 21 defendants. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is denied. 22 I. Background 23 Plaintiffs initiated this suit in 2021 as eight homeless City of Chico residents. They 24 brought several claims including but not limited to a claim that enforcement of City anti-camping 25 laws against homeless persons was cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth 26 Amendment to the United States Constitution. 27 The parties resolved this suit through a Settlement…