Opinion
2:90-cv-0520 KJM DB P
06-22-2021
RALPH COLEMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants.
ORDER
By minute order filed June 7, 2021, the court set an In Camera Midlitigation Status (Scheduling) Conference (hereafter In Camera Conference) for June 16, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. ECF No. 7192. The court subsequently reset the date for July 20, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. ECF Nos. 7193, 7206. The court's order requires the appearance of all individuals identified in a list the courtroom deputy emailed concurrently to counsel. ECF No. 7206. On June 18, 2021, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Kathleen Allison filed a “notice of unavailability” on July 20, 2021 and requested to be excused. ECF No. 7208.
The court deems Secretary Allison's attendance at the In Camera Conference essential. Therefore, her request is construed as a request to reset the date for the In Camera Conference. So construed, the granting of the request is conditioned upon defendants' identifying a new date and time for the In Camera Conference between July 6, 2021 and August 3, 2021 that is available to the court, the court's Special Master, and all other individuals on the list emailed to counsel on June 17, 2021. Defendants are granted until June 30, 2021 to file and serve the request to reset the In Camera Status conference with new proposed date and time as authorized by this order. Failure to submit a timely request will result in the denial of Secretary Allison's request and enforcement, as necessary, of the June 17, 2021 order.
IT IS SO ORDERED.