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Case No. C 06 1793 JW HRL
ORDER RELATING CASES AND SETTING HEARING ON MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE
(DPSAGOK)
**E-filed 3/9/06**
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN JOSE DIVISION
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE,
Plaintiff,
v.
Jeanne S. WOODFORD, Acting Secretary of the
California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation; Steven W. Ornoksi, Acting Warden
of San Quentin State Prison; and Does 1-50,
Defendants.
Case Number C 06 1793 JW HRL
DEATH-PENALTY CASE
ORDER RELATING CASES AND
SETTING HEARING ON MOTION
TO CONSOLIDATE
[Docket No. 3]
The present action concerns a First Amendment challenge by a news organization to
California’s lethal-injection protocol. Plaintiff moves to relate and consolidate the present action
with Morales v. Woodford, Nos. C 06 219 JF RS & C 06 926 JF RS, which involves an Eighth
Amendment challenge to the protocol, and also moves to shorten time so that its motion may be
heard on March 10, 2006. Defendants consent to relation of the cases but oppose both
consolidation and the motion to shorten time.
Having considered the moving and opposing papers, and in light of Defendants’ non-
opposition to Plaintiff’s substantive motion insofar as the motion seeks to relate the present
action to Morales, the motion is GRANTED to that extent. The Court hereby designates the
Honorable Richard Seeborg, the assigned magistrate judge for Morales, as the assigned
Case 5:06-cv-01793-JF Document 10 Filed 03/09/2006 Page 1 of 2
Pacific News Service v. Tilton
Doc. 10
Dockets.Justia.com
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Case No. C 06 1793 JW HRL
ORDER RELATING CASES AND SETTING HEARING ON MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE
(DPSAGOK)
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