Criswell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHARLES CRISWELL, et al., No. 1:20-cv-01048-DAD-SAB Plaintiffs, v. ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY

APPROVAL OF CLASS ACTION

MICHAEL BOUDREAUX, in his official SETTLEMENT AND CONDITIONAL CLASS capacity as Sheriff of Tulare County, CERTIFICATION 15 Defendant. (Doc. No. 82)

17 This matter is before the court on plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary approval of a class action settlement and conditional certification of settlement class filed on August 10, 2021.1 (Doc. No. 82.) Pursuant to General Order No. 617 addressing the public health emergency posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs’ motion was taken under submission on the papers. (Doc.

This court's overwhelming caseload has been well publicized and the long-standing lack of judicial resources in this district long-ago reached crisis proportion. That situation, which has continued unabated for over twenty months now, has left the undersigned presiding over approximately 1,300 civil…