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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 Plaintiff, v. ORDER GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants. 16 To correct longstanding Eighth Amendment violations in this decades-old class action lawsuit, defendants must remedy ongoing deficiencies in the prevention of inmate suicides in California’s prisons. See, e.g., Coleman v. Brown, 938 F. Supp. 2d 955, 973-79 (E.D. Cal. 2013). That remedial effort requires full implementation of suicide prevention measures recommended by the Special Master’s expert, Lindsay M. Hayes, and ordered by the court in February 2015. Nearly eight years after ordering those measures, the court issued two further orders. In the first order, the court once again reviewed the defendants’ long history of failure to fully implement the required suicide prevention measures and set a status conference for February 10, 2023 to discuss next steps. See generally January 6, 2023 Order, ECF No. 7696. In the…