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*1 Case 2:19-cv-02288-JAM-AC Document 55 Filed 10/18/21 Page 1 of 2 1 R OB B ONTA , State Bar No. 202668
Attorney General of California
2 M ICHAEL L. N EWMAN , State Bar No. 222993
Senior Assistant Attorney General
3 L AURA L. F AER , State Bar No. 233846
V ILMA P ALMA -S OLANA , State Bar No. 267992
4 Supervising Deputy Attorneys General
L ISA C ISNEROS , State Bar No. 251473
M ARISOL L EÓN , State Bar No. 298707
D ELBERT T RAN , State Bar No. 323993
Deputy Attorneys General
455 Golden Gate Ave., Suite 11000
San Francisco, CA 94102-7004
Telephone: (415) 510-3438
E-mail: Lisa.Cisneros@doj.ca.gov
Attorneys for Defendant California
Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EASTERN DIVISION
CREIGHTON MELAND, JR., Case No. 2:19-cv-02288-JAM-AC Plaintiff,
v. ORDER SUSTAINING DEFENDANT’S EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS, AND GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION SHIRLEY N. WEBER, in her official TO STRIKE THE SUPPLEMENTAL capacity as Secretary of State of the State of DECLARATION OF CREIGHTON California, MELAND, JR. AND PORTIONS OF
PLAINTIFF’S REPLY BRIEF IN Defendant. SUPPORT OF HIS MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Order Sustaining Def.’s Evidentiary Objections and Granting Mot. to Strike (2:19-cv-02288-JAM-AC) *2 Case 2:19-cv-02288-JAM-AC Document 55 Filed 10/18/21 Page 2 of 2 ORDER SUSTAINING DEFENDANT’S EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS, AND GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO STRIKE THE SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF CREIGHTON MELAND, JR. AND PORTIONS OF PLAINTIFF’S REPLY BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF HIS MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
After review of Defendant Secretary of State’s Evidentiary Objections, Notice and Motion to Strike the Supplemental Declaration and Portions of Plaintiff’s Reply in Support of his Motion for Preliminary Injunction, filed on October 15, 2021, as well as Plaintiff’s response, the pleading and papers on file, and such other matters presented to the Court, it is hereby ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED:
1. The Supplemental Declaration of Plaintiff Creighton Meland, Jr. in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction (supplemental declaration), ECF No. 46-1, is stricken from the record.
2. Defendant Secretary of State’s evidentiary objections to portions of Plaintiff’s supplemental declaration, specifically, Paragraphs 6, 17, and 21, and the second and last sentences in Paragraph 7, are sustained and these portions are stricken from the record.
3. The following portions of Plaintiff’s Reply in Support of his Motion for Preliminary Injunction, ECF No. 46, specifically arguments at 14:2-5 and 14:6-12, are stricken from the record.
4. Plaintiff may not rely on the foregoing to support his Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: 10/18/2021 /s/John A. Mendez THE HONORABLE JOHN A. MENDEZ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
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Order Sustaining Def.’s Evidentiary Objections and Granting Mot. to Strike (2:19-cv-02288-JAM-AC)