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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. GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 This matter is before the court on the Special Master’s Report and Recommendation on a 18 Final Proposed Telepsychiatry Policy, ECF No. 7682, filed December 15, 2022 (hereafter Report). The parties have each filed a response to the Report, ECF Nos. 7702 (defendants’ 20 response), 7703 (plaintiffs’ response), and, with leave of court, ECF No. 7759, supplemental responses. ECF Nos. 7739 (plaintiffs), 7772 (defendants). As explained below, the court adopts the Report and approves as final the telepsychiatry policy it previously approved provisionally. 23 I. BACKGROUND Telepsychiatry has been part of the remedial landscape in this action since its early days 25 and has been used to provide mental health care in California’s prisons since at least 1999. ECF No. 5564 at…