Harris
Harris v. Atchley
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MICHAEL JAY HARRIS, Case No. 22-cv-00529-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S EX
v. PARTE MOTION
MATTHEW ATCHLEY, et al., Docket No. 61 Defendants.
12 13 Plaintiff Michael Harris asks the Court to enjoin his transfer from sensitive needs custody at Salinas Valley State Prison (“SVSP”) to a merged yard at High Desert State Prison (“HDSP”). The Court granted a temporary restraining order enjoining Mr. Harris’s transfer and held an initial hearing to determine whether a preliminary injunction (“PI”) should issue. The Court ordered Defendants to file a supplemental brief with statistics that would assist the Court’s decision, and scheduled a second PI hearing for Thursday, September 21, 2023. See Docket Nos. 51, 56. Defendants have filed their supplemental brief, which reveals that the HDSP merged yard has 846 inmates in total, 127 of whom have an “R” suffix. See Docket No. 59. In the last six months, there…