Newsom

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Ralph Coleman, et al., No. 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DB 12 Plaintiffs, ORDER 13 v. 14 Gavin Newsom, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 17 On November 16, 2023, this court directed defendants to bring an appropriate motion 18 | regarding whether the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policy to 19 | review maximum custody inmate-patients in psychiatric inpatient programs (PIPs) should be 20 | included in the continuous quality improvement tool (CQIT). Nov. 16, 2023 Order at 13, ECF 21 | No. 8069. Defendants have now moved the court to exclude the CDCR policy from the CQIT. 22 | The motion is denied. 23 | I. BACKGROUND 24 A. Development of the Continuous Quality Improvement Tool 25 Almost three decades ago, the court found defendants violated their Eighth Amendment 26 | duty to provide access to adequate mental health care to the inmates in their custody who suffer 27 | from serious mental…