Sausalito/Marin County Chapter of the California Homeless Union v. City of Sausalito

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 SAUSALITO/MARIN COUNTY Case No. 21-cv-01143-EMC

CHAPTER OF THE CALIFORMIA

8 HOMELESS UNION, et al.,

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’

9 Plaintiffs, MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY

RESTRAINING ORDER AND

10 v. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

11 CITY OF SAUSALITO, et al., Docket No. 1

12 Defendants.

13 14 15 The case at bar concerns an encampment of about twenty homeless people in or adjacent to 16 Dunphy Park in Sausalito, California. These individuals have lived at the encampment for the past 17 several months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plaintiffs in the instant case are the 18 Sausalito/Main County Chapter of the California Homeless Union and several of the Dunphy Park 19 campers. They brought suit in response to Sausalito’s plan to break up this encampment, move 20 the campers to a different site, and impose a ban on day camping (which would require the 21 campers to break camp each morning, store their equipment, and not set up camp again until the 22 …