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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., No. 2:90-cv-0520 KJM DB P Plaintiffs, ORDER v. 14 GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 For more than a quarter century, the court has supervised this case, which plaintiffs filed to correct Eighth Amendment violations in the delivery of mental health care to persons with serious mental disorders incarcerated in California prisons. See Coleman v. Wilson, 912 F. Supp. 1282 (E.D. Cal. 1995). The court’s 1995 order established the fundamental requirements for full remediation. Over the past twenty-five years, while the state has made progress toward meeting

1 In 1991, the court certified a class in this action consisting of “all inmates with serious mental disorders who are now or who will in the future be confined within the California Department of Corrections,” now known as the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or CDCR, “(except the San Quentin State Prison, the Northern Reception Center at Vacaville and the California Medical Facility—Main…