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DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 for a press conference and rally, and 
 to hear oral arguments on class certification in Ashker v. Brown, our 
 federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison in 
 California.\n\nIn the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) and other 
 California SHUs, prisoners are isolated in near-total solitude for between 
 22 ½ and 24 hours a day, denied telephone calls, contact visits, and 
 vocational, recreational, or educational programs.\n\nOn July 8th, 
 prisoners began a hunger strike and work stoppage, arguing the California 
 Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) failed to meet the 
 prisoners' core demands, and reneged on negotiated agreements made after 
 the 2011 hunger strikes. CCR and several advocacy and legal organizations 
 in California filed the case last year on behalf of prisoners who have 
 spent between 12 and 23 years in solitary confinement. In May, we moved for 
 class certification.\n\nThe court will hear arguments as to whether Ashker 
 v. Brown should be certified as a class action lawsuit. Plaintiffs are 
 seeking to certify a class of all prisoners serving indeterminate sentences 
 at the Pelican Bay SHU on the basis of gang validation for purposes of our 
 due process claim, and a subclass of all prisoners who have been held at 
 the Pelican Bay SHU for more than 10 years for purposes of our Eighth 
 Amendment claim.\n\nWhat: Press conference and rally to be held at 1 PM 
 outside the Courthouse, followed by 2 PM court session hearing oral 
 argument in Ashker v. Brown on class certification.\nWhen: Thursday, Sept. 
 26, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.\nWhere: Oakland Courthouse, Courtroom 2, 4th floor, 
 1301 Clay Street, Oakland,CA 94612 before Chief District Judge Claudia 
 Wilken.\n\nWe suggest those wishing to attend the 2 PM courtroom session 
 arrive 30 minutes to one hour early, in order to go through security. 
 Everyone will need a current form of identification in order to get inside 
 the building.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/17/18743410.php
SUMMARY:Pack the Court - Oral Argument in Ashker v. Brown on class certification
LOCATION:Oakland Courthouse\nCourtroom 2, 4th floor\n1301 Clay Street\nOakland, CA  
 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/17/18743410.php
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