Blain

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 JACKSON BLAIN, et al., Case No. 3:22-cv-04178-WHO (JD)

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE TEMPORARY

v. RESTRAINING ORDER

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, et al., 13 Defendants.

14 The pro se plaintiffs in this suit have asked to modify a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) issued by the Hon. William H. Orrick. Dkt. No. 59. The request has been transferred to the Hon. James Donato as General Duty Judge. It is denied. The TRO currently in place restrains the California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) from closing an encampment of individuals experiencing homelessness on land owned by Caltrans near Wood Street in Oakland, California. See Dkt. No. 40. Plaintiffs are individuals who live on Caltrans’s land. Id. at 5. They ask to “expand the existing TRO to enjoin the City of Oakland” from carrying out a closure of an encampment on a neighboring piece of land that Oakland, not Caltrans, owns. Dkt. No. 59 at 1-2, 5. …