Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitiation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JANINE CHANDLER, et al, Case No. 1:21-cv-01657-JLT-HBK Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING WITH CONDITIONS

MOTION TO INTERVE AS OF RIGHT

v. (Doc. 19) CALIFORNIA DEP’T OF

CORRECTIONS AND

REHABILITATION, et al., Defendants. 17 Before the Court is a motion to intervene filed by four transgender women, who are incarcerated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (“TGIJP”). The prospective intervenors seek to intervene as a matter of right1 to defend their interests. (See id. at 2.) The defendants oppose the motion. Because the Court finds that the intervenors have a protectible interest in this litigation and the defendants may not adequately defend this interest, the Court GRANTS the motion to intervene with conditions. /// ///

1 Because the Court grants intervention as of right, the Court does not address the alternate argument as to whether I. Facts and…