Blain

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JACKSON BLAIN, et al., Case No. 3:22-cv-04178-WHO

Plaintiffs,

ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISSOLVE

v. TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

AND FOR A PRELIMINARY

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF INJUNCTION TRANSPORTATION, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 67, 74 Defendants.

12 Five weeks ago, I issued a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) to prevent the California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) from closing the Wood Street homeless encampment on its land in Oakland, California, and clearing out homeless individuals, their possessions, and structures. I found that, based on the combination of a lack of notice—the record showed that many plaintiffs had been there for years yet were given only five days’ warning of the closure— and the lack of any concrete plans for providing them alternative shelter, the plaintiffs had raised serious questions that the state would place them in undue danger, violating the Fourteenth Amendment. I…