Buffin et al v. City and County of San Francisco et al, No. 4:2015cv04959 - Document 314 (N.D. Cal. 2019)

Court Description: ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING CBAA'S CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO REVOKE CBAA'S INTERVENOR STATUS by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 282 Motion for Summary Judgment; denying 287 Motion to Revoke CBAA's Intervenor Status; denying 300 Cross-motion for Summary Judgment. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/4/2019)

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Buffin et al v. City and County of San Francisco et al Doc. 314 1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 6 RIANA BUFFIN, ET AL., Plaintiffs, 7 vs. 8 9 10 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, ET AL., Defendants. CASE NO. 15-cv-04959-YGR ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING CBAA’S CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO REVOKE CBAA’S INTERVENOR STATUS Re: Dkt. Nos. 282, 300, 287 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 Plaintiffs challenge the use of San Francisco’s Felony and Misdemeanor Bail Schedule1 as 13 a basis for defendant Sheriff Vicki Hennessy (the “Sheriff”) to release detainees prior to 14 arraignment where those detainees do not have the means to afford the amounts set forth therein. 15 Plaintiffs argue that plausible alternatives exist which would allow for their release and that the 16 continued use of such a schedule violates the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 17 United States Constitution. When the Sheriff refused to defend the use of the Schedule, the Court 18 granted California Bail Agents Association (“CBAA”) limited intervenor status. 19 Now before the Court are plaintiffs’ motion to revoke CBAA’s intervenor status, and 20 plaintiffs’ and CBAA’s cross-motions for summary judgment on plaintiffs’ Equal Protection and 21 Due Process claims.2 Having carefully considered the pleadings in this action, the fully-briefed 22 motions, and the hearing held on January 8, 2019, and for the reasons set forth below, the Court 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 See Dkt. No. 283-2 (the “Bail Schedule” or “Schedule”). For purposes of this action, the Court presumes that the parties agree that 2017 Bail Schedule, (see id.), is the same or substantially similar to the one in use in 2015. 2 See Plaintiffs’ Motion to Revoke CBAA’s Intervenor Status (“Motion to Revoke”), Dkt. No. 287; Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment (“Plaintiffs’ MSJ”), Dkt. No. 282; and CBAA’s Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment and Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (“CBAA’s Cross-MSJ”), Dkt. No. 300. Dockets.Justia.com United States District Court Northern District of California 1 DENIES plaintiffs’ motion to revoke CBAA’s intervenor status; GRANTS plaintiffs’ motion for 2 summary judgment; and DENIES CBAA’s cross-motion for summary judgment on the terms set 3 forth herein. 4 I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND 5 The Court finds the following facts not subject to reasonable dispute: 6 A. 7 San Francisco police arrested plaintiff Riana Buffin on Monday, October 26, 2015 for Factual Overview3 8 “grand theft of personal property” (Cal. Penal Code (“Penal Code”) § 487(a)) and “conspiracy to 9 commit a crime” (id. § 182(a)(1)). (Dkt. No. 136-8.)4 According to her “booking card,” Ms. 10 Buffin, at the time 19 years old, was booked into jail at 11:33 p.m. (Id.) She was informed that 11 her bail amount was set at $30,000, that is, the combined amount of $15,000 for each booking 12 charge pursuant to the Bail Schedule. (Id.) The Schedule provides, “[f]or all unscheduled 13 felonies, the bail amount is $15,000[,]” and with respect to conspiracy, if the underlying felony is 14 identified, the amount is the “same as [the] underlying” felony or, if not specified, then $15,000. 15 (Bail Schedule at 2 (emphases removed).) Here, Penal Code section 487(a) is not scheduled, 16 hence the $15,000. Under either formulation for the conspiracy charge, an additional $15,000 was 17 properly set in accordance with the Bail Schedule. 18 Ms. Buffin did not post bail because she could not afford it, testifying: 19 20 Q. A. 21 Q. And why didn’t you call a bail agent? Because we or my mom didn’t have the money for a bail agent, and they want a fortune. . . . Was there an amount that you could have afforded[?] . . . . 22 23 24 25 26 3 The Court notes that the parties cross reference facts found by the Court in its prior summary judgment order. Order Denying CBAA’s Motion for Summary Judgment; Denying Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment (“MSJ Order”), Dkt. No. 191. Thus, where appropriate, the Court cites back to the evidence submitted then and which is not in dispute, such as plaintiff Buffin’s booking card. 4 27 28 The Court notes that the exhibit at Docket Number 136-8 was previously locked at plaintiffs’ counsel’s request, to be refiled at a later date. The document was never refiled, and no basis exists for sealing. The Court hereby UNSEALS Docket Number 136-8. 2 1 No.5 2 The District Attorney’s office ultimately decided not to file formal charges against Ms. Buffin, and 3 she was released. Despite having been detained on a Monday night, Ms. Buffin was never taken 4 to court on Tuesday or Wednesday for an initial appearance. Notably, by the time of her release 5 on Wednesday night, she had spent approximately 46 hours in custody, and normal court 6 operations had long since ceased. As a consequence of her detention, Ms. Buffin lost her job at 7 the Oakland Airport. (See Buffin Depo Tr. at 52:3– 53:2.) 8 9 United States District Court Northern District of California A. San Francisco police arrested plaintiff Crystal Patterson on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 3:49 p.m. and, according to her booking card, she was detained for “assault with force likely to 10 cause great bodily injury,” Penal Code section “245(a)(1) [sic].” (Dkt. No. 283-12 at ECF p. 4.)6 11 Ms. Patterson, at the time 29 years old, was booked into jail, where she was informed that her bail 12 amount was set at $150,000. Again, this represented the combined amount of $75,000 each for 13 two separate counts of assault under Penal Code section “245(a)(1) [sic].” (Id.) Ms. Patterson, 14 too, could not afford the $150,000 for immediate release, nor was she taken to court: 15 16 17 Q. A. Q. A. So you told [the bail agent], I can’t afford that? Right. And then the second number was a number you could afford? I couldn’t afford it. I had to borrow from my family.7 18 After approximately 29 hours of incarceration, and prior to her initial appearance, Ms. Patterson 19 was released after her uncle paid an “initial down payment” of $1,500 on a $15,000 non- 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 See Exh. 1 to Declaration of Robert E. Sims ISO Plaintiffs’ Reply ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ and Opposition to CBAA’s Cross-MSJ (“Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ Reply”), Dkt. No. 306, (“Buffin Depo Tr.”) at 49:4–17, Dkt. No. 306-1. 6 The Court notes that “assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury” is found in Penal Code section 245(a)(4) and carries a scheduled bail amount of $50,000. See Bail Schedule at 3. Penal Code section 245(a)(1) concerns “[a]ssault with deadly weapon,” and the scheduled bail amount for the same is $75,000. Id. This discrepancy is not relevant for purposes of the instant motions. 7 Exh. 2 to Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ Reply at 37:19–24, Dkt. No. 306-2. 3 1 refundable premium to secure a bond from a surety bail agent.8 The surety bail contract provided: 2 4 I understand that the premium owing and/or paid on this bond is fully earned upon release of the defendant from custody. The fact that the defendant may have been improperly arrested or his/her bail reduced, or his/her case dismissed, shall not obligate the return or forgiveness of any portion of the premium.9 5 Following Ms. Patterson’s release, the District Attorney decided not to file formal charges against 6 her and discharged the case.10 United States District Court Northern District of California 3 7 The evidence gathered in this case reveals that, like Ms. Patterson, over 99% of arrestees 8 who are released on bail in San Francisco obtain surety bonds through contracts with bail agents. 9 In San Francisco, in 2016, the largest number of bonds issued ranged in amounts between $10,000 10 and $50,000, with the average bail amount posted at $56,000 and the median bail posted at 11 $43,000.11 Bail agents are legally allowed to charge a non-refundable premium of up to 10% of 12 the total bail amount for their services.12 Often, third-party family members, friends, or employers 13 14 15 8 Ms. Patterson’s uncle paid the surety bail agent the $1,500 down payment on her behalf, and her sister and grandmother co-signed the surety bail contract. Dkt. No. 136-1 ¶¶ 13–14. The record does not reveal whether the balance of the $15,000 was paid or demanded. 16 9 17 10 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Dkt. No. 25-1 at ECF p. 4 (emphasis in original). Ms. Patterson’s and Ms. Buffin’s arrests occurred before Sheriff Hennessy assumed office. The parties do not dispute that appropriate bail amounts were assigned given both plaintiffs’ charges and corresponding Bail Schedule entries. 11 See Exh. 8 to Declaration of Robert E. Sims ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ”), Dkt. No. 283, (“Do the Math”) at 4, Dkt. No. 283-8. 12 See Do the Math at 2. CBAA disputes the June 2017 Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector for the City and County of San Francisco’s Financial Justice Project report entitled “Do the Math: Money Bail Doesn’t Add Up for San Francisco” as not being properly authenticated and as inadmissible hearsay. CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 24. Importantly, at the hearing on the instant motions, CBAA conceded that, while it does “dispute” certain evidence in the record, it does not seek a trial to resolve any such disputes. Dkt. No. 313 (“January 8, 2019 Hearing Tr.”) at 4:10–14. Trial would have obviously allowed for cross-examination of all evidence presented, including challenges to its reliability, but this right was expressly waived. With respect to the specific objections, the Court finds that as an official publication issued by the Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector for the City and County of San Francisco, the report is self-authenticating, see Fed. R. Evid. 902(5), and admissible under the hearsay exception 4 1 of the arrestee will co-sign with a detainee to obtain a surety bond.13 In fact, bail companies rely 2 on these co-signors to help ensure that the detainee returns to court.14 Moreover, recent studies 3 corroborate plaintiffs’ own experiences, estimating in 2017 that “30% of custodial arrests . . . will 4 be declined for prosecution each year . . . .”15 United States District Court Northern District of California 5 Relevant here, California law requires superior court judges to “prepare, adopt, and 6 annually revise a uniform countywide schedule of bail for all bailable felony offenses and for all 7 misdemeanor and infraction offenses except Vehicle Code infractions.” Penal Code § 1269b(c). 8 In so doing, judges are required to consider the seriousness of the offense charged. Id. § 1269b(e). 9 In this case, the San Francisco superior court established the referenced Bail Schedule, which is 10 comprised principally of a three-columned table that identifies an “Offense,” or Penal Code 11 section, a short “Description” thereof, and a fixed “Bail” amount. (See generally Bail Schedule.) 12 The Sheriff consults the Bail Schedule to determine an arrestee’s bail amount. Specifically, the 13 Sheriff locates each “booking charge,” tabulates the amounts designated per charge, and releases 14 the detainee upon payment of that sum. The Sheriff applies the process mechanically, making no 15 individualized assessment regarding public safety, flight risk, ability to pay, or strength of the 16 evidence. 17 18 The record is devoid of any evidence upon which the amounts in the Bail Schedule are determined or justified. For sake of comparison, CBAA’s 30(b)(6) witness testified: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 for public records, see Fed. R. Evid. 803(8). Further, this was a study upon which the City was to implement policy, which adds reliability to the factual representations contained therein. While CBAA may not agree with the report’s conclusions, CBAA has not made any specific objection to the process, data collection, or data itself. Thus, CBAA’s evidentiary objections to the report are OVERRULED. 13 See CBAA’s Responsive Separate Statement of Disputed and Additional Facts re: Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“CRSS”) Issue 1 Fact 14, Dkt. No. 301; Do the Math at 2; Exh. 4 to Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“Clayton Depo Tr.”) at 105:9–23, Dkt. No. 283-4. 14 26 27 28 See Dkt. No. 303-7 at 77:17–78:4; Exh. 9 to Declaration of Krista L. Baughman ISO CBAA’s Opposition to Plaintiffs’ MSJ and Cross-MSJ (“Baughman Decl. ISO CBAA’s CrossMSJ”), Dkt. No. 303, (“Morris Report”) at 10, Dkt. No. 303-9. 15 See Exh. 6 to Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“Sheriff’s Department Memo”) at 1, Dkt. No. 283-6. 5 1 2 3 4 Q: A: Q: A: Q: 5 6 A: Q: 7 A: 8 9 United States District Court Northern District of California 10 So that’s 20,000 more than driving under the influence, right? Yes. And 5,000 more than driving under the influence and actually causing injury; is that right? That’s right. Do you know why receipt of a stolen vehicle has a higher bail than driving under the influence and causing injury? I don’t. Can you tell me how it protects public safety to have a bail that’s higher for receipt of a stolen vehicle than it is for driving drunk and injuring someone? I can’t -- I don’t know what the judges were thinking on this. I don’t know what the date [sic] would show in terms of, you know, are some of these offenses more likely to fail to appear than others? Or are some of them more likely to commit additional crimes, which is a consideration under the constitution and the statutory scheme. But I don’t know why the judges did this schedule the way they did. 11 (Clayton Depo Tr. at 50:1–22.) Rather, the evidence reveals that San Francisco’s Bail Schedule is 12 among the highest in the state. (Dkt. No. 283-10 at 37:22–24.) No reason or process is provided 13 for the basis upon which the amounts were determined. Meanwhile, those arrestees who either 14 can afford the amount of bail identified in the Bail Schedule or can post a surety bond for the same 15 are simply released. 16 Under state law, some arrestees may apply to a magistrate for pre-arraignment release on 17 lower bail or on his or her own recognizance (“OR”). See Penal Code § 1269c. This application 18 may be made without a hearing. Id. Ironically, individuals charged with certain offenses are 19 ineligible to apply pre-arraignment for either OR release or a reduction in bail, but, if they pay the 20 applicable amount under the Bail Schedule, the Sheriff may release them absent some other legal 21 impediment to their release.16 Id. 22 23 In setting bail, a judge or magistrate may consider the information included in a report prepared by an investigative staff employed by the court for the purpose of recommending 24 25 26 27 28 16 Subject to narrow exceptions, in California a person accused of committing an offense requiring them to remain in custody must be taken before a magistrate judge for arraignment within 48 hours of his or her arrest, not including Sundays and holidays. Penal Code § 825(a)(1). After a hearing in open court, a judge may order release on the appropriate conditions. Id. § 1270.1. 6 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 whether a detainee should be released on his or her OR. Penal Code §§ 1275(a)(1), 1318.1. In 2 San Francisco, the San Francisco Pretrial Diversion Project contracts with the Sheriff’s 3 Department to provide certain pretrial services, including the OR Project. One of the purposes of 4 the OR Project is to provide the court with the same information prior to arraignment. 5 On April 30, 2016, the OR Project staff began using a Public Safety Assessment Tool (the 6 “PSA Tool”) developed by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The purpose of the PSA Tool 7 is to make an individualized assessment regarding the risk that an arrestee, if released pretrial, will 8 fail to appear or will engage in new criminal activity, and to generate a release recommendation 9 based on the assessed risk. Release recommendations (not decisions) are a function of (1) the 10 score generated by the PSA Tool and (2) a decision-making framework (“DMF”) prepared by a 11 working group that includes representatives from the San Francisco Superior Court, Sheriff’s 12 Department, District Attorney, Public Defender, and Conflict Counsel. 13 Since the PSA Tool has been in use, it has changed the OR Project staff’s various 14 procedures. Previously, the OR Project staff prepared a report called an “OR Workup” after 15 interviewing the arrestee. The OR Workup consisted of the information gathered from the 16 interview and references, a criminal history report, a summary of the criminal history report, and a 17 cover sheet. For those arrestees eligible for pre-arraignment release, the OR Workup was 18 presented to the duty judge.17 Otherwise, the court considered it at arraignment. 19 Since implementation of the PSA Tool, the OR Project staff are no longer required to 20 interview the arrestee. Rather, they prepare an OR Workup for each arrestee eligible for OR 21 release (whether at arraignment or before), which includes a summary of the arrestee’s individual 22 and criminal history, the criminal history printouts, the police report, and a cover sheet, 23 supplemented with a release recommendation generated by the PSA Tool and the DMF. 24 Presentation to the duty judge or at arraignment remain the same. There is no guaranteed timeline 25 26 27 28 17 The duty judge is the judicial officer assigned to rule on applications for prearraignment release. 7 1 United States District Court Northern District of California 2 for when the OR Workup will be completed.18 In terms of timing, the evidence unequivocally demonstrates that arrestees who post the 3 full amount of bail listed on the Bail Schedule can secure release more quickly than any other 4 category of arrestees.19 This is true even when an arrestee who posts the full bail amount has been 5 charged with a more serious offense than the indigent arrestee.20 By way of example only, the 6 Sheriff released on bail within several hours of arrest a person who had been charged in what 7 appeared to be a serious assault case involving an axe and requiring SWAT team management, 8 while an indigent, disabled individual who was also arrested for assault (her “deadly weapon” was 9 a cane) was held in custody for five days because she could not afford the felony bail. (Klement 10 Decl. ¶ 8.) There, the assault charge was ultimately reduced to a misdemeanor, and the individual 11 was released on her own recognizance. (Id.) Consistent with this example, research indicates that 12 individuals charged with serious or violent offenses who are able to secure release usually do so 13 14 18 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 For pre-arraignment applications, it is generally submitted for ruling to the duty judge the same working day the OR Project receives the arrestee’s fingerprint record. The OR Project did not prepare an OR Workup for either plaintiff Buffin before she was released or plaintiff Patterson before she posted bail. 19 See, e.g., Plaintiffs’ Responsive Separate Statement (“PRSS”) Fact 6, Dkt. No. 307; Clayton Depo Tr. at 84:20–85:2; id. at 85:8–10. 20 See Declaration of Tal H. Klement ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“Klement Decl.”) ¶ 8, Dkt. No. 284. CBAA disputes Mr. Klement’s declaration testimony “to the extent that [p]laintiffs appear to be using him as an undisclosed expert offering opinions on the underlying data.” See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 25. This objection is OVERRULED. Mr. Klement was not proffered as an expert, nor does he provide expert opinions. Instead, plaintiffs are only offering Mr. Klement’s testimony as a summary witness for factual information under Federal Rule of Evidence 1006, and he properly testifies as to matters which are squarely within his particularized firsthand knowledge and experience as a San Francisco Deputy Public Defender. His personal knowledge of the Public Defender and the Sheriffs’ data from the superior court’s case management system is sufficient to testify as a summary witness. See Ferrari Club of Am., Inc. v. Bourdage, 6:12-CV-06530 EAW, 2017 WL 1498080, at *6 (W.D.N.Y. Apr. 25, 2017) (“[P]ersonal knowledge of the records themselves is sufficient to testify as a summary witness.”); see also Donlin v. Philips Lighting N. Am. Corp., 581 F.3d 73, 81 (3d Cir. 2009) (“When a lay witness has particularized knowledge by virtue of her experience, she may testify—even if the subject matter is specialized or technical— because the testimony is based upon the layperson’s personal knowledge rather than on specialized knowledge within the scope of [Federal Rule of Evidence] 702.”). 8 1 by posting bail.21 Moreover, with respect to some offenses, current law elevates bail over OR 2 release. That is, under the law, arrestees for certain offenses are ineligible for OR release before a 3 bail hearing or arraignment but bail is nevertheless an option for those very same offenses.22 This 4 effectively means that a wealthy arrestee who is charged with a violent offense can be released 5 from custody within a matter of hours, while an indigent arrestee can remain incarcerated for as 6 many as five days before seeing a judicial officer or the case is discharged for “lack of evidence.” 7 (Klement Decl. ¶ 17.) Evidence further reveals that San Francisco arrestees who are released after posting United States District Court Northern District of California 8 9 secured money bail are released, on average, 12.8 hours faster than arrestees who obtain release 10 through the OR Project. (PRSS Fact 6.) Nonetheless, “some people currently in California jails 11 who are safe to be released are held in custody solely because they lack the financial resources for 12 a commercial bond, and other people who may pose a threat to public safety have been able to 13 secure their release from jail simply because they could afford to post a commercial bond.” 14 (Workgroup Report at 25.) Consistent with plaintiffs’ experiences, and the Sheriff’s Department’s 15 2017 internal memorandum, evidence shows that one quarter of the arrests are dismissed or not 16 rebooked prior to arraignment. Thus, from 2016 to 2018, the number of felony charges filed 17 totaled 42,672. Of those, 10,923 were dropped or not rebooked, and an additional 441 were 18 reduced to misdemeanors, reflecting a combined total of 26%. (See Exh. B. to Klement Decl. at 1, 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21 See Exh. 17 to Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“Workgroup Report”) at 25, Dkt. No. 283-17. CBAA disputes the Workgroup Report as not being properly authenticated and as inadmissible hearsay. See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 24. The Court finds that as an official publication issued by a workgroup established by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, the report is self-authenticating, see Fed. R. Evid. 902(5), and admissible under the hearsay exception for public records, see Fed. R. Evid. 803(8). Thus, CBAA’s evidentiary objection to the report is OVERRULED. 22 For example, felony bail for domestic violence offenses is high, and those charged with these offenses are ineligible for OR release before arraignment. However, an arrestee charged with domestic violence who has sufficient resources can be released on bail within a matter of hours, with virtually no supervision, and even if that individual may pose more of a threat than the indigent individual who must remain in custody. Workgroup Report at 25–26; Klement Decl. ¶ 17. 9 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 Dkt. No. 284-2.) Finally, the record corroborates plaintiffs’ own experiences while held in pre- 2 arraignment detention. One to five days in jail can take a mental and physical toll on arrestees, 3 impact custody of their children, and, as happened here, lead to loss of employment. (See Klement 4 Decl. ¶ 2.) 5 B. Case-Related Background 6 1. 7 On March 6, 2017, the Court granted CBAA’s motion for permissive intervention 8 under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(b). (Dkt. No. 119.) It did so under specific conditions 9 and for a very narrow purpose, namely to serve as a “zealous advocate” given, at that juncture, Permissive Intervention 10 “the absence of any defendant willing to defend the constitutionality of section 1269b[.]” 11 (Id. at 6–7.) The Court concurrently denied CBAA’s motion to intervene as of right under Rule 12 24(a)(2), reasoning, inter alia, that “CBAA’s interest in continuing to profit from the provision of 13 bail bonds” was “too remote from the core issues involved in the litigation.” (Id. at 4 (internal 14 quotation marks omitted).) While CBAA’s motives are not lost on the Court, in allowing CBAA 15 to intervene permissively the Court sought to ensure “two sets of well-crafted legal arguments and 16 a fully-vetted factual record.” (Id. at 7.) To that end, the parties engaged in substantial discovery. 17 That said, the Court contained the scope of CBAA’s intervention, by prohibiting it from 18 expanding the scope of the action or raising new issues, to simply defending the constitutionality 19 of Penal Code section 1269b. 20 2. 21 The text of Penal Code section 1269b is restated in pertinent part below. The 22 Penal Code section 1269b statute commences with the duties of the Sheriff: 23 (a) The officer in charge of a jail in which an arrested person is held in custody . . . may approve and accept bail in the amount fixed by the warrant of arrest, schedule of bail, or order admitting to bail in cash or surety bond executed by a certified, admitted surety insurer . . . , to issue and sign an order for the release of the arrested person, and to set a time and place for the appearance of the arrested person before the appropriate court and give notice thereof. 24 25 26 27 With respect to the “schedule of bail” at issue here, subsections (b) through (d) require: 28 /// 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 (b) If a defendant has appeared before a judge of the court . . . , the bail shall be in the amount fixed by the judge at the time of the appearance. If that appearance has not been made . . . [and], if no warrant of arrest has been issued, the amount of bail shall be pursuant to the uniform countywide schedule of bail for the county in which the defendant is required to appear, previously fixed and approved as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d). (c) It is the duty of the superior court judges in each county to prepare, adopt, and annually revise a uniform countywide schedule of bail for all bailable felony offenses and for all misdemeanor and infraction offenses except Vehicle Code infractions. . . . 7 9 (d) A court may, by local rule, prescribe the procedure by which the uniform countywide schedule of bail is prepared, adopted, and annually revised by the judges. If a court does not adopt a local rule, the uniform countywide schedule shall be prepared, adopted, and annually revised by a majority of the judges. 10 Penal Code §§ 1296b(a)–(d). Among the little guidance in section 1269b regarding the creation of 11 the schedule is that, under subsection (e), the judges are to “consider the seriousness of the offense 12 charged.” The schedule is required to contain “a list of the offenses and the amounts of bail 13 applicable for each as the judges determine to be appropriate” plus a “general” catchall clause for 14 any offense not otherwise specifically listed. Id. § 1269b(f). Then, “[u]pon posting bail, the 15 defendant or arrested person shall be discharged from custody as to the offense on which the bail 16 is posted.” Id. § 1296b(g). United States District Court Northern District of California 8 17 3. 18 In its previous 20-page summary judgment order, the Court detailed the reasons for Previous Summary Judgment Order 19 concluding that strict scrutiny review applies to plaintiffs’ Due Process and Equal Protection 20 claims. In so explicating, the Court cabined the relevant inquiry as follows: “(i) whether the 21 Sheriff, through use of the Bail Schedule, has significantly deprived plaintiffs of their fundamental 22 right to liberty, and, if so, (ii) whether, under the strict scrutiny standard of review, the Sheriff’s 23 use of the Bail Schedule is the least restrictive alternative for achieving the government’s 24 compelling interests.” (MSJ Order at 17.) 25 The Court concluded that the factual record remained in dispute, especially given the 26 Sheriff’s own objection to plaintiffs’ interpretation of the Sheriff’s data on the length of detention 27 for individuals who could not afford bail as compared to those who could. (Id. at 17–18.) 28 Moreover, given the disputes and sparse factual record, the Court determined that plaintiffs had 11 1 “not met their initial burden as to the existence of a less restrictive alternative to achieve the 2 government’s interests as compared to the Sheriff’s use of the Bail Schedule.” (Id. at 18.)23 The 3 Court explained: 4 5 6 7 8 9 As plaintiffs concede, they must first make a prima facie showing in this regard. . . . That is, they must make a showing of a “plausible, less restrictive alternative[],”Ashcroft v. ACLU, 542 U.S. 656, 666 (2004) (emphasis supplied). The proposed alternative need not be “more effective,” id. at 669 (emphasis supplied)—plaintiffs must show only that it would be “at least as effective,” Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844, 874 (1997) (emphasis supplied). The current record is insufficient on this point. . . . Plaintiffs’ prima facie case need not rise to the level of scientific precision. However, given the absence of undisputed, competent evidence that the proffered alternative systems could be administered feasibly in the specific context of the County, plaintiffs have failed to meet their initial burden. 10 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Once plaintiffs have made a showing of a plausible, less restrictive alternative, the government has the burden of proof under the strict scrutiny standard. CBAA, having stepped into the shoes of the Sheriff as intervenor, must show that plaintiffs’ proposed alternative would be less effective at serving the government’s compelling interest(s) and/or more restrictive. Here, plaintiffs and CBAA agree that at a minimum the County has a compelling interest in ensuring that arrestees appear for trial. . . . However, as mentioned previously, the evidence of plausible, less restrictive alternatives to furthering that interest is disputed (and, in many cases, given plaintiffs’ evidentiary failures, was not admissible as proffered). (Id. (footnotes omitted).) The Court repeats herein, only as necessary, its analysis with respect to the finding that 18 strict scrutiny applies. The instant cross-motions for summary judgment address the parties’ 19 respective showings under that standard of review. 20 4. 21 After denying the prior cross-motions for summary judgment, the Court certified 22 23 24 25 Class Certification the following class: All pre-arraignment arrestees (i) who are, or will be, in the custody of the San Francisco Sheriff; (ii) whose bail amount is determined by the Felony and Misdemeanor Bail Schedule as established by the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco; (iii) whose terms of pretrial release have not received an individualized determination 26 23 27 28 The Court required plaintiffs to associate counsel before it would allow the class action to proceed, after which counsel from Latham & Watkins joined the case. See Dkt. No. 186 at 43:10–44:4; see also Dkt. No. 178 at 1. 12 1 2 United States District Court Northern District of California 3 by a judicial officer; and (iv) who remain in custody for any amount of time because they cannot afford to pay their set bail amount. (Dkt. No. 214 at 3.)24 4 5. 5 On August 28, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Money Bail Legislative Developments 6 Reform Act (“S.B. 10”) into law,25 which was initially set to go into effect on October 1, 2019. 7 (CRSS Issue 2 Fact 13.) However, earlier this year, a referendum to overturn S.B. 10 qualified for 8 the November 3, 2020 statewide ballot.26 Approval by a majority of voters will be required before 9 S.B. 10 can take effect.27 10 As for the impetus behind S.B. 10, its authors recognized that “[o]n any given day, 11 approximately 60% of people in jail in California are either awaiting trial or sentencing” and that 12 “[m]any of those in California’s jails are there for no reason other than the fact that they are unable 13 to afford money bail.”28 Moreover: 14 15 16 17 24 CBAA’s continued objection to the use of the phrase “cannot afford” in the class definition is rejected. The issue was fully briefed, and the Court will not revisit it now simply because CBAA wants to base additional and irrelevant arguments thereon. 25 S.B. 10, 2018 Cal. Legis. Serv. Ch. 244 (Cal. 2018). 26 See https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures/. 27 See id. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 28 Exh. 3 to Plaintiffs’ Request for Judicial Notice ISO MSJ, Dkt. No. 285, (“Senate Report”) at 8, Dkt. No. 285-3. In connection with their motion for summary judgment, plaintiffs request that the Court take judicial notice of: (i) S.B. 10; (ii) a document detailing the actions taken by legislative committees in considering and passing S.B. 10, pulled from the website for California Legislative Information; and (iii) the Report from the Senate Committee on Public Safety regarding S.B. 10. CBAA opposes only plaintiffs’ request as to the Senate Report, “to the extent Plaintiffs seek judicial notice of the truth of any factual representations made in that document.” Dkt. No. 292 at 1; see also CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 24. CBAA does not challenge the authenticity of the Senate Report itself. The Court refers to the Senate Report here “as part of the familiar process of consulting legislative history in order to illuminate legislative intent.” Brown v. City of Pittsburgh, 586 F.3d 263, 267 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009) (emphasis supplied). The Court does not draw any conclusions about the truth of any factual representations made in the committee report but 13 1 Even a short period of pretrial detention can result in loss of employment, housing, and public benefits for the detained person – costs that then must be borne by family members already struggling to make ends meet. Family members who are able to scrape together enough money to pay a non-refundable fee to a for-profit bail company to secure a loved-one’s release from jail often end up with long-term debt to the bail company, even when their loved one is innocent of any wrongdoing and is never convicted of a crime. . . . 2 3 4 5 6 (Senate Report at 9.) CBAA provides no evidence to the contrary. S.B. 10’s statutory history 7 reveals the Legislature’s decision to “remedy” California’s pretrial system by “reducing reliance 8 on money bail, supporting pretrial defendants with pretrial services, focusing detention resources 9 on those who pose a risk of danger, reducing racial disparities, and ensuring that people are not United States District Court Northern District of California 10 left in jail simply because they cannot afford to pay for their release.” (Id.) 11 In relevant part, S.B. 10 prohibits monetary conditions of release in California, authorizing 12 Pretrial Assessment Services to release, without court approval and prior to arraignment, low-risk 13 and medium-risk arrestees with “the least restrictive nonmonetary condition or combination of 14 conditions that will reasonably assure public safety and the person’s return to court.” S.B. 10 15 §§ 1320.10(b), (c). More specifically, S.B. 10 requires the following, inter alia: 16 17 18 Individuals arrested for misdemeanors (with certain exceptions) will be released within 12 hours. Id. § 1320.8. To determine eligibility for release under S.B. 10, all jurisdictions will be required to 19 generate for each arrestee who is arrested and booked, prior to arraignment or pre- 20 arraignment review, the results of a risk assessment “using a validated risk assessment 21 instrument, including the risk score or risk level.” Id. § 1320.9(a)(1). 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 notes only that certain representations regarding the impetus behind S.B. 10 are consistent with the purposes stated in the text of S.B. 10 itself and the facts gathered in this action. Accordingly, and because courts may take judicial notice of state statutes and their legislative history, plaintiffs’ request for judicial notice is GRANTED in its entirety. See Anderson v. Holder, 673 F.3d 1089, 1094 n.1 (9th Cir. 2012) (“Legislative history is properly a subject of judicial notice.”); Lee v. City of L.A., 250 F.3d 668, 689 (9th Cir. 2001) (explaining that a court may take judicial notice of undisputed matters of public record but not disputed facts stated therein); Oceanic Cal., Inc. v. City of San Jose, 497 F. Supp. 962, 967 n.8 (N.D. Cal. 1980) (explaining that courts may take judicial notice of state statutes). 14 1 Pretrial Assessment Services shall consider the risk score, the criminal charge, 2 supplemental information, and input from the victim to generate a report. 3 Id. §§ 1320.9(a)–(c). 4 Individuals who are assessed as low risk to public safety and of failure to appear in court 5 (with certain exceptions) shall be released on their own recognizance, prior to arraignment 6 and without review by the court, “with the least restrictive nonmonetary condition or 7 combination of conditions that will reasonably assure public safety and the person’s return 8 to court.” Id. § 1320.10(b). 9 United States District Court Northern District of California Individuals who are assessed as medium risk (with certain exceptions) shall be released on 10 their own recognizance or on supervised own recognizance release, prior to arraignment 11 and without review by the court, “and with the least restrictive nonmonetary condition or 12 combination of conditions that will reasonably assure public safety and the person’s return 13 to court.” Id. § 1320.10(c). 14 15 16 Individuals who are assessed as high risk shall be detained until arraignment. Id. § 1320.10(h). Superior courts shall adopt a local rule with respect to pre-arraignment review of medium- 17 risk arrestees that “support[s] an effective and efficient pretrial release or detention system 18 that protects public safety and respects the due process rights of defendants.” 19 Id. § 1320.11(a). Moreover, superior courts shall consider annually “the impact of the 20 [local] rule on public safety [and] the due process rights of defendants[.]” Id. 21 The Judicial Council shall establish options for conditions of release, which shall become 22 part of the recommendations made in the report created by Pretrial Assessment Services. 23 Id. § 1320.9(c). 24 S.B. 10 also requires counties to report to the state pretrial release and detention information 25 biannually, which includes information about the percentage of individuals released pretrial, the 26 percentage of those who fail to appear at a required court appearance, those who commit new 27 crimes while on pretrial release, and the rate of judicial concurrence with recommended conditions 28 of release. Id. § 1320.24(b). None of these provisions exist in Penal Code section 1296b. 15 1 6. 2 In anticipation of trial, post a period of additional discovery, the Court held a 3 pretrial conference. (See Dkt. Nos. 219, 278.) Thereat, plaintiffs, the Sheriff, and CBAA agreed 4 that, in light of the passage of S.B. 10, a bench trial was unnecessary and opted instead for another 5 round of cross-motions for summary judgment, and plaintiffs’ filing of a motion to revoke 6 CBAA’s intervenor status. (Dkt. No. 280 at 51:21–57:16.) The Court considers the latter motion 7 first. 8 II. MOTION TO REVOKE CBAA’S INTERVENOR STATUS Plaintiffs submit that the Court should strip CBAA of its intervenor status on the grounds 9 United States District Court Northern District of California September 2018 Pretrial Conference 10 that CBAA no longer has standing and cannot “stand in the shoes” of the Sheriff in light of the 11 passage of S.B. 10. (Motion to Revoke at 7.) Plaintiffs’ arguments fail to persuade.29 The Court granted intervenor status under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(b). 12 13 Admittedly, “intervention does not carry with it an absolute entitlement to continue as a party until 14 termination of the suit.” Tasby v. Wright, 109 F.R.D. 296, 298 (N.D. Tex. 1985) (citing Morgan v. 15 McDonough, 726 F.2d 11, 14 (1st Cir. 1984)). Courts have authority to determine whether 16 intervenor status “continues to be viable” when faced with a motion to revoke that party’s 17 intervenor status. Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley v. Salazar, No. 5:09-cv-02502 EJD, 18 2012 WL 4717814, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 28, 2012), aff'd, 534 F. App’x 665 (9th Cir. 2013). This 19 authority stems from courts’ “inherent power to control the proceedings” before them. Id. A court 20 can therefore terminate intervention should the result of the inquiry weigh in favor of such an 21 order. Id. 22 /// 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 In connection with its opposition to plaintiffs’ motion to revoke CBAA’s intervenor status, CBAA requests that the Court take judicial notice of the California Secretary of State’s webpage entitled “Initiatives and Referenda Cleared for Circulation.” Dkt. No. 293. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 201, a court can take judicial notice of “[p]ublic records and government documents available from reliable sources on the Internet,” such as websites run by government agencies. Gerritsen v. Warner Bros. Entm’t, Inc., 112 F. Supp. 3d 1011, 1033 (C.D. Cal. 2015) (internal quotation marks omitted). Accordingly, the Court GRANTS CBAA’s unopposed request. 16 The Court finds that plaintiffs’ arguments are premature as they are premised on the United States District Court Northern District of California 1 2 notion that Penal Code section 1269b has been repealed, in fact. (See Motion to Revoke at 6.) 3 The text of S.B. 10 itself indicates: “This bill would, as of October 1, 2019, repeal existing laws 4 regarding bail and require that any remaining references to bail refer to the procedures specified in 5 the bill.” (S.B. 10 at ECF p. 1 (emphasis supplied).)30 Next, the Court finds plaintiffs’ claim that 6 CBAA must meet Article III standing requirements misplaced. CBAA did not initiate the instant 7 action, seek review on appeal, or perform any “other function that invoke[d] the power of the 8 federal courts.” Vivid Entm’t LLC v. Fielding, 774 F.3d 566, 573 (9th Cir. 2014) (emphasis in 9 original). Thus, CBAA need not satisfy standing separately. The Court’s prior rationale for 10 granting intervenor status remains valid.31 Plaintiffs’ motion to revoke CBAA’s intervenor status 11 is DENIED. 12 III. CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 13 A. 14 A party seeking summary judgment bears the initial burden of demonstrating the absence Legal Standard 15 of a genuine issue of material fact as to the basis for the motion. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 16 U.S. 317, 323 (1986). Material facts are those that might affect the outcome of the case. 17 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1986). A dispute as to a material fact is 18 “genuine” if there is sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to return a verdict for the nonmoving 19 party. Id. 20 Where the moving party will have the burden of proof at trial, it “must affirmatively 21 demonstrate that no reasonable trier of fact could find other than for the moving party.” 22 Soremekun v. Thrifty Payless, Inc., 509 F.3d 978, 984 (9th Cir. 2007). If the moving party meets 23 its initial burden, the opposing party must then set out specific facts showing a genuine issue for 24 25 26 30 This date will extend as the referendum has qualified for the November 2020 ballot. See supra at 13. 31 27 28 Plaintiffs’ final argument that CBAA can no longer stand in the shoes of the Sheriff due to “changed circumstances” merely repeats the argument relative to the “repeal” of Penal Code § 1269b. See Motion to Revoke at 7–8. As explained, the argument is premature. 17 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 trial in order to defeat the motion. See Anderson, 477 U.S. at 250; Soremekun, 509 F.3d at 984; 2 see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c), (e). The opposing party’s evidence must be more than “merely 3 colorable” and must be “significantly probative.” Anderson, 477 U.S. at 249. Further, the 4 opposing party may not rest upon mere allegations or denials of the adverse party’s evidence, but 5 instead must produce admissible evidence showing a genuine dispute of material fact exists. See 6 Nissan Fire & Marine Ins. Co., Ltd. v. Fritz Cos., Inc., 210 F.3d 1099, 1102–03 (9th Cir. 2000). If 7 the opposing party fails to make a sufficient showing of an element of its case, the moving party is 8 entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Celotex, 477 U.S. at 325. “Where the record taken as a 9 whole could not lead a rational trier of fact to find for the non-moving party, there is no ‘genuine 10 issue for trial.’” Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587 11 (1986) (quoting First Nat’l Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Serv. Co., 391 U.S. 253, 289 (1968)). In 12 making this determination, the court must “view[] the evidence in the light most favorable to the 13 nonmoving party[.]” Fontana v. Haskin, 262 F.3d 871, 876 (9th Cir. 2001). It is not the court’s 14 task to “scour the record in search of a genuine issue of triable fact.” Keenan v. Allan, 91 F.3d 15 1275, 1279 (9th Cir. 1996) (internal quotation marks omitted). Moreover, “[d]isputes over 16 irrelevant or unnecessary facts will not preclude a grant of summary judgment.” T.W. Elec. Serv., 17 Inc. v. Pac. Elec. Contractors Ass’n, 809 F.2d 626, 630 (9th Cir. 1987). “[W]hen parties submit cross-motions for summary judgment, each motion must be 18 19 considered on its own merits.” Fair Hous. Council of Riverside Cty., Inc. v. Riverside Two, 249 20 F.3d 1132, 1136 (9th Cir. 2001) (alteration and internal quotation marks omitted). Thus, “[t]he 21 court must rule on each party’s motion on an individual and separate basis, determining, for each 22 side, whether a judgment may be entered in accordance with the Rule 56 standard.” Id. (quoting 23 Wright, et al., Federal Practice and Procedure § 2720, at 335–36 (3d ed. 1998)). If, however, the 24 cross-motions are before the court at the same time, the court must consider the evidence proffered 25 by both sets of motions before ruling on either one. Riverside Two, 249 F.3d at 1135–36. 26 B. 27 By way of background, a synopsis of the history of bail is warranted. 28 Short Overview of the History of Bail /// 18 1 2 for most crimes was a “fine paid as compensation to the victim.” (Workgroup Report at 9.) When 3 capital and corporal punishment replaced fines, “abuses in the delay between arrest and trial began 4 to emerge.” (Id.) In response, the common law right to bail was codified into English law, and 5 the principles that “an accused is presumed innocent and entitled to personal liberty pending trial” 6 were incorporated into the Magna Carta. (Id.) Criteria set for determining whether a person 7 should be released on bail included the strength of the evidence against the accused and the 8 accused’s criminal history. (Id.) 9 United States District Court Northern District of California Bail originated in medieval England as “a device to free untried prisoners.”32 The penalty In America, the development and use of bail followed a different course. The United 10 States Constitution does not specifically grant a right to bail, and the Eighth Amendment states 11 only that “[e]xcessive bail shall not be required[.]” U.S. Const. amend. VIII. However, the 12 presumption of innocence and right to freedom pending trial “became the foundation of our 13 current system of bail.” (Workgroup Report at 9.) Initially, the system did not contemplate a 14 profit industry or indemnification in the posting of the bond. By the nineteenth century, our bail 15 system had shifted to a surety system “in which secured bonds were typically administered 16 through commercial sureties and their agents, and the deposit of money or the pledge of assets 17 became a principal condition of release.” (Id. at 10.) 18 In 1912, when the United States Supreme Court considered the goals and interests of bail, 19 it observed that the “interest to produce the body of the principal in court [was] impersonal and 20 wholly pecuniary.” Leary v. United States, 224 U.S. 567, 575 (1912). In 1951, the Supreme 21 Court indicated that “[u]nless th[e] right to bail before trial is preserved, the presumption of 22 innocence, secured only after centuries of struggle, would lose its meaning.” Stack v. Boyle, 342 23 U.S. 1, 4 (1951). Further, since the “function of bail is limited, the fixing of bail for any 24 25 26 27 28 32 Daniel J. Freed & Patricia M. Wald, Bail in the United States: 1964 1 (National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice, Working Paper, 1964) (“Bail in the United States”). Unless stated otherwise, this summary is pulled largely from the Workgroup Report and Bail in the United States. Notably, the Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup also relied on the latter source, which was extensively cited in the legislative history of the United States Bail Reform Act of 1966 and commentary of the same. 19 1 individual defendant must be based upon standards relevant to the purpose of assuring the 2 presence of that defendant.” Id. at 5 (emphasis supplied). 3 Both federal and state rules outlined more specific criteria for consideration. For example, 4 a prior version of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 46(c) provided that “the amount [of bail] . . . 5 will insure the presence of the defendant, having regard to the nature and circumstances of the 6 offense charged, the weight of the evidence against him, the financial ability of the defendant to 7 give bail, and the character of the defendant.” Fed. R. Crim. P. 46(c) (amended in 1985). State 8 appellate courts laid down similar criteria, for instance: 11 The factual matters to be taken into account include: The nature of the offense, the penalty which may be imposed, the probability of the willing appearance of the defendant or his flight to avoid punishment, the pecuniary and social condition of the defendant and his general reputation and character, and the apparent nature and strength of the proof, as bearing on the probability of his conviction. 12 People ex rel. Lobell v. McDonnell, 296 N.Y. 109, 111 (1947) (internal quotation marks omitted). 9 United States District Court Northern District of California 10 13 Despite the early origins and broad recognition of the right to bail in this country, studies 14 of administration of bail in the twentieth century raised a number of concerns about its widespread 15 misuse.33 The studies concluded that the system of money bail in the United States discriminates 16 against indigent detainees who lack the financial resources to post bail.34 Challenges to requiring 17 bail from an impoverished detainee were raised in the courts as early as 1960, questioning whether 18 freedom and liberty could be rightfully denied merely on the basis of indigence. See Bandy v. 19 United States, 81 S. Ct. 197, 197–98 (1960); see also Bandy v. United States, 82 S. Ct. 11 (1961). 20 /// 21 22 33 23 24 25 26 27 28 See, e.g., Field Study, A Study of the Administration of Bail in New York City, 106 U. Pa. L. Rev. 693 (1958); Note, Compelling Appearance in Court: The Administration of Bail in Philadelphia, 102 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1031 (1954); Arthur L. Beeley, The Bail System in Chicago (1927). 34 See, e.g., Wayne H. Thomas, Jr., Bail Reform in America 11, 19 (1976) (“The American system of bail allows a person arrested for a criminal offense the right to purchase his release pending trial. Those who can afford the price are released; those who cannot remain in jail. . . . The requirement that virtually every defendant must post bail causes discrimination against defendants who are poor.”). 20 Driven by concerns about problems and inequities in bail practices, Congress enacted the 1 2 Bail Reform Act of 1966, the stated purpose of which was “to assure that all persons, regardless of 3 their financial status, shall not needlessly be detained pending their appearances to answer charges 4 . . . when detention serves neither the ends of justice nor the public interest.”35 By emphasizing 5 nonmonetary terms of bail, Congress attempted to remediate the negative impacts experienced by 6 defendants who were unable to pay for their pretrial release, including the adverse effect on 7 defendants’ ability to consult with counsel and prepare a defense, the financial impacts on their 8 families, a statistically less-favorable outcome at trial and sentencing, and the fiscal burden that 9 pretrial incarceration poses on a society at large.36 Congress again revised federal bail procedures with the Bail Reform Act of 1984.37 The United States District Court Northern District of California 10 11 legislative history of the 1984 Act explains that Congress wanted to “address the alarming 12 problem of crimes committed by persons on release” and to “give the courts adequate authority to 13 make release decisions that give appropriate recognition to the danger a person may pose to others 14 if released.”38 The 1984 Act, as amended, retains many of the key provisions of the 1966 Act but 15 “allows a federal court to detain an arrestee pending trial if the Government demonstrates by clear 16 and convincing evidence after an adversary hearing that no release conditions ‘will reasonably 17 assure . . . the safety of any other person and the community.’” United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 18 739, 741 (1987) (alteration in original) (quoting Bail Reform Act of 1984) (upholding the 19 preventive detention provisions in the 1984 Act); see also 18 U.S.C. § 3142(a) (providing 20 generally the current federal procedure for ordering either release or detention of a defendant 21 pending trial). 22 /// 23 35 Bail Reform Act of 1966, Pub. L. No. 89-465, § 2, 80 Stat. 214 (repealed 1984). 25 36 See H.R. Rep. No. 89-1541 (1966), reprinted in 1966 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2293, 2299. 26 37 24 27 28 See Bail Reform Act of 1984, Pub. L. No. 98-473, § 202, 98 Stat. 1837, 1976 (codified at 18 U.S.C. §§ 3141–50). 38 S. Rep. 98-225, at 3 (1983), reprinted in 1984 U.S.C.C.A.N. 3182, 3185. 21 1 Notwithstanding twentieth-century advances in pretrial justice, there is a growing 2 nationwide “consensus on concerns regarding the administration of bail in the criminal justice 3 system.” (Workgroup Report at 13.) 4 C. 5 United States District Court Northern District of California 6 Standard of Review: One’s Liberty is a Fundamental Right Necessitating Strict Scrutiny Review The Court previously found that whether the Sheriff’s use of the Bail Schedule violates the 7 Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the United States Constitution is an issue subject to 8 strict scrutiny analysis. (See supra at 11–12.) As the Court explained, heightened scrutiny is 9 required by the United States Supreme Court’s Bearden-Tate-Williams line of cases,39 particularly 10 “where fundamental deprivations are at issue and arrestees are presumed innocent.” (MSJ Order 11 at 16.) Because the Sheriff’s use of the Bail Schedule implicates plaintiffs’ fundamental right to 12 liberty, “any infringement on such right requires a strict scrutiny analysis.” (Id. at 10–11.) 13 In its cross-motion for summary judgment, CBAA requests that the Court reconsider the 14 standard of review. CBAA’s request is procedurally and substantively unwarranted.40 Civil Local 15 Rule 7-9, which governs motions for reconsideration, applies. While CBAA argues that a material 16 difference in law from that previously presented to the Court justifies reconsideration, the law 17 must be controlling. See Civ. L.R. 7-9(b)(2); see also Mason & Dixon Intermodal, Inc. v. 18 Lapmaster Int’l, LLC, No. C 08-1232 VRW, 2009 WL 10681000, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 23, 2009) 19 (noting that “[d]espite the imprecise language of [Civ. L.R. 7-9], only a change in controlling law 20 warrants reconsideration”) (emphasis in original); see also Sch. Dist. No. 1J, Multnomah Cty., Or. 21 v. ACandS, Inc., 5 F.3d 1255, 1263 (9th Cir. 1993) (“Reconsideration is appropriate if . . . there is 22 an intervening change in controlling law.”) (emphasis supplied). No such change exists here. 23 24 25 26 27 28 39 See Bearden v. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660 (1983); Tate v. Short, 401 U.S. 395 (1971); and Williams v. Illinois, 399 U.S. 235 (1970). 40 While CBAA is correct that “[t]he law of the case doctrine does not . . . bar a court from reconsidering its own orders before judgment is entered or the court is otherwise divested of jurisdiction over the order[,]” Askins v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 899 F.3d 1035, 1042 (9th Cir. 2018), the Court nevertheless finds no basis to reconsider its previous summary judgment order. 22 As a preliminary matter, the Court previously considered and rejected CBAA’s contention 1 2 that a 48-hour safe harbor exists under Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103 (1975) and County of 3 Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991) (addressing the window in which the government 4 must make a probable cause determination after a warrantless arrest). (See MSJ Order at 11–12.) 5 In summary, the Court found that CBAA read the cited cases too narrowly: 6 11 In Gerstein, the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment requires a prompt judicial determination of probable cause as a prerequisite to an extended pretrial detention following a warrantless arrest. 420 U.S. at 124–25. The Court did not specify what would meet the promptness standard, instead noting that “the nature of the probable cause determination usually will be shaped to accord with a State’s pretrial procedure viewed as a whole.” Id. at 123. Subsequently, in considering what constitutes a “prompt” probable cause determination under Gerstein, the Supreme Court held in McLaughlin that a judicial determination of probable cause within 48 hours of arrest generally will pass constitutional muster. 500 U.S. at 56. 12 (MSJ Order at 11.) The Supreme Court noted a presumption, not a safe harbor. The constitutional 13 question is whether an “arrested individual can prove that his or her probable cause determination 14 was delayed unreasonably.” (Id. (quoting McLaughlin, 500 U.S. at 56).) None of the CBAA’s 15 proffered authority compels a different result. See Walker v. City of Calhoun, 901 F.3d 1245 (11th 16 Cir. 2018); ODonnell v. Goodhart, 900 F.3d 220 (5th Cir. 2018) (“ODonnell II”). Neither case is 17 binding, and both are distinguishable. 7 8 9 United States District Court Northern District of California 10 ODonnell II is a non-binding split decision of the Fifth Circuit, which involved a non- 18 19 dispositive interlocutory decision in the context of granting a stay of an injunction. See ODonnell 20 II, 900 F.3d at 223 (“We now grant the motion and enter a stay . . . pending plenary resolution of 21 this appeal by a merits panel.”) There, fourteen state trial court judges themselves sought the stay. 22 The injunction arose from procedural due process claims with respect to use of the bail schedule at 23 issue. That court’s analysis focused on specific aspects of the injunction’s language not at issue 24 here. Id. at 222–23. Moreover, the instant case involves substantive due process and equal 25 protection claims. Further, ODonnell II’s passing reference to the appropriateness of “rational 26 basis review” ignores its own decision in ODonnell v. Harris County, 892 F.3d 147 (5th Cir. 27 2018) (“ODonnell I”) calling for “heightened scrutiny.” See ODonnell I, 892 F.3d at 161–62 & 28 n.6. 23 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 Quoting ODonnell II, CBAA argues that, in light of In re Humphrey, 19 Cal. App. 5th 2 1006 (2018), rational basis review controls because procedural safeguards exist and this case is 3 premised “solely on inability to afford bail, as distinguished from inability to afford bail plus the 4 absence of meaningful consideration of other possible alternatives.”41 This argument contravenes 5 Supreme Court precedent. Indigent arrestees who are detained prior to their individualized 6 hearings solely because they cannot afford secured money bail do not receive any “meaningful 7 consideration of other possible alternatives” that would enable their pre-hearing release. Rather, 8 they “share[] two distinguishing characteristics” which trigger heightened scrutiny: (1) “because 9 of their impecunity they [are] completely unable to pay for some desired benefit”; and (2) “as a 10 consequence, they sustain[] an absolute deprivation of a meaningful opportunity to enjoy that 11 benefit.” San Antonio Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1, 20 (1973). 12 Walker, too, is non-binding and does not necessitate reconsideration. There, again, a split 13 Eleventh Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction based on procedural due process arguments after 14 the City of Calhoun, Georgia itself filed an interlocutory appeal. Walker, 901 F.3d at 1253. In 15 short, indigent arrestees brought a putative class action against the city, alleging constitutional 16 violations by conditioning immediate release from jail on an arrestee’s ability to pay a preset 17 amount of cash without providing meaningful alternatives to indigent arrestees. The city itself 18 identified concerns with the specifics of the injunction. In relevant part, the Walker court 19 determined that indigency determinations for purposes of setting bail are presumptively 20 constitutional if made within 48 hours of arrest, id. at 1266, noting that indigent detainees “must 21 merely wait some appropriate amount of time to receive the same benefit as the more affluent” and 22 that an appropriate period of delay, without more, does not offend the Constitution. Id. at 1261. 23 24 25 26 27 28 41 CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 8–9 (quoting ODonnell II, 900 F.3d at 231–32) (emphasis in original). Under Humphrey, during an individual’s arraignment, a court must make findings regarding an arrestee’s ability to pay the fixed bail amount and alternatives to money bail. Humphrey, 19 Cal. App. 5th at 1044–45. If an arrestee’s financial resources would be insufficient and the court’s order would result in pretrial detention, then the court must find by clear and convincing evidence that no less restrictive alternative conditions of release could serve the government’s compelling interests. Id. 24 1 Accordingly, the court rendered it unnecessary to review the City’s practice with heightened 2 scrutiny. Id. at 1260–62. United States District Court Northern District of California 3 As with ODonnell II, the Walker court’s reasoning regarding procedural due process does 4 not bear on the analysis of plaintiffs’ equal protection and substantive due process claims here. 5 See id. at 1259 (“Walker’s claim . . . challenges not the amount and conditions of bail per se, but 6 the process by which those terms are set . . . .“) (emphasis supplied); id. at 1265 (“[T]he relief 7 Walker seeks is essentially procedural: a prompt process by which to prove his indigency and to 8 gain release.”). That said, Walker also reaffirms the notion that only a presumption exists. See id. 9 at 1266 (“[I]ndigency determinations for purposes of setting bail are presumptively constitutional 10 if made within 48 hours of arrest.”) (emphasis supplied); id. at 1267 n.13 (“The McLaughlin Court 11 made clear that the 48-hour presumption was rebuttable: a probable cause hearing held within 48 12 hours may nonetheless be unconstitutional ‘if the arrested individual can prove that his or her 13 probable cause determination was delayed unreasonably.’”) (quoting McLaughlin, 500 U.S. at 56). 14 In fact, the 48-hour presumption itself was contested as too lengthy in McLaughlin. Justice Scalia 15 lambasted the majority for its arbitrary articulation of “48 hours,” harkening back to reams of legal 16 authority rooted as far back as 1825, citing Wright v. Court, 107 Eng. Rep. 1182 (K.B. 1825) (“[I]t 17 is the duty of a person arresting any one on suspicion of felony to take him before a justice as soon 18 as he reasonably can.”). McLaughlin, 500 U.S. at 61–62 (Scalia, J., dissenting). Justice Scalia 19 argued that given the data available, law enforcement needed only “24 hours” to obtain probable 20 cause review (perhaps excepting Sunday). Id. at 68–69. At that time, twenty-nine states required 21 “presentment or arraignment ‘without unnecessary delay’ or ‘forthwith’; eight [s]tates explicitly 22 require[d] presentment or arraignment within 24 hours; and only seven [s]tates [had] statutes 23 explicitly permitting a period longer than 24 hours.” Id. at 69. 24 Ultimately, this Court does not share the same view on the principle of liberty as the 25 Walker court. All courts agree that the Bearden Court summarized the rule of Williams and Tate 26 as follows:42 “[I]f the State determines a fine or restitution to be the appropriate and adequate 27 28 42 See generally MSJ Order at 13–17. 25 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 penalty for the crime, it may not thereafter imprison a person solely because he lacked the 2 resources to pay it.” Bearden, 399 U.S. at 667–68. Rather, the Constitution requires the 3 government to use the least restrictive alternative. In so holding, the Bearden Court noted that 4 “[d]ue process and equal protection principles converge in the Court’s analysis” in cases involving 5 the fair treatment of indigents in the criminal justice system. Id. at 665. Answers to constitutional 6 questions in that context “cannot be resolved by resort to easy slogans or pigeonhole analysis, but 7 rather require[] a careful inquiry into such factors as ‘the nature of the individual interest affected, 8 the extent to which it is affected, the rationality of the connection between legislative means and 9 purpose, [and] the existence of alternative means for effectuating the purpose . . . .’” Id. at 666–67 10 (quoting Williams, 399 U.S. at 260 (Harlan, J., concurring)) (alterations in original). Those means 11 are not hard and fast but must be tested, especially given that we live in a technology-driven age 12 where information is readily available, and some courts are even open seven days a week.43 The 13 question is under what standard. 14 On that basis, this Court found the instant challenge to be properly reviewed under strict 15 scrutiny and is aligned with the dissenting opinions in both ODonnell II and Walker. The 16 deprivation of one’s liberty cannot, and should not, be easily trampled. Nor should one’s liberty 17 be so easily discarded upon strained hypotheticals such as the Walker court’s comparison of the 18 inability to afford bail with the inability to pay for express mail. See Walker, 901 F.3d at 1264. 19 As dissenting Circuit Judge Martin observed in Walker, the United States Supreme Court recently 20 reaffirmed that “[a]ny amount of actual jail time is significant and has exceptionally severe 21 consequences for the incarcerated individual and for society which bears the direct and indirect 22 costs of incarceration.” Id. at 1275 (quoting Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 23 1907 (2018)) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). Here, the bonds of history remind us 24 that the “presumption of innocence, secured only after centuries of struggle,”44 should not vanish 25 26 27 28 43 See, e.g., http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/nyc/criminal/generalinfo.shtml. The Court takes judicial notice of the New York Courts’ website, which shows that certain New York City criminal courts are open Monday through Sunday. 44 See Boyle, 342 U.S. at 4. 26 1 under the guise of the universal benefits of a bail option. While “indigency,” by definition, 2 indicates a lack of wealth, the constitutional principle is what controls. That principle here is 3 grounded in liberty. We need not be concerned with hysteric claims of floodgates to wealth-based 4 claims opening. Cf. Walker, 901 F.3d at 1262, 1277–78. 5 In sum, CBAA’s efforts to establish rational basis as the applicable standard of review in 6 this case, again, are unavailing. The Court proceeds with its analysis based on a strict scrutiny 7 standard of review.45 8 D. 9 1. 10 Step 1: Does the Sheriff’s use of the Bail Schedule significantly deprive plaintiffs of their fundamental right to liberty by sole season of their indigence? In summary, strict scrutiny applies because the fundamental right to liberty is 11 United States District Court Northern District of California Analysis 12 implicated by plaintiffs’ claims. The question then is whether a significant deprivation has 13 occurred. Contrary to CBAA’s position, the existence of a significant deprivation is not a 14 threshold requirement which triggers strict scrutiny,46 but rather the first inquiry in a strict scrutiny 15 45 16 17 18 19 See MSJ Order at 10–11, 16; see also Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law Principles and Policies at 827 (Erwin Chemerinsky et al. eds., 5th ed. 2015) (“[O]nce a right is deemed fundamental, under due process or equal protection, strict scrutiny is generally used.”); see also id. at 828 (“If a right is deemed fundamental, the government usually will be able to prevail only if it meets strict scrutiny; but if the right is not fundamental, generally only the rational basis test is applied.”). 46 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 CBAA cites Tsosie v. Califano, 630 F.2d 1328 (9th Cir. 1980) in support of its contention that plaintiffs must first show that they have suffered a genuinely significant deprivation of a fundamental right in order for strict scrutiny to apply. See Dkt. No. 308 (“CBAA’s Reply ISO Cross-MSJ”) at 4. Specifically, CBAA describes Tsosie as having “appl[ied] strict scrutiny only where [a] classification impermissibly interferes with the exercise of a fundamental right[.]” Id. (emphasis in original) (internal quotation marks omitted). However, the court in Tsosie applied the rational basis standard because “no fundamental rights [were] implicated by th[e] case in such a way as to require strict scrutiny.” Tsosie, 630 F.2d at 1337 (emphasis supplied). Specifically, “[a]s the class of after-adopted children receiving public or other outside assistance is not a suspect class,” the court determined it “must examine the statutory distinctions [at issue] in light of the rational-basis standard . . . .” Id. CBAA similarly misleads with its citation to Halet v. Wend Investment Co., 672 F.2d 1305 (9th Cir. 1982). There, the court reaffirmed that strict scrutiny is required in the equal protection context when a classification impermissibly interferes with the exercise of a fundamental right and in the due process context when fundamental rights are at issue. Id. at 1310. While the Halet court recognized that “[n]ot every state action that infringes on a fundamental right triggers strict scrutiny[,]” it cited Tsosie 27 1 analysis.47 Here, plaintiffs have established a significant deprivation, beginning with longer 2 detention by sole reason of their indigence.48 3 As a threshold matter, the Court disagrees with plaintiffs’ contention that the passage of 4 S.B. 10 “unequivocally establish[es] that . . . the Sheriff’s use of the Bail Schedule significantly 5 deprives the class of its fundamental right to liberty[.]” (Plaintiffs’ MSJ at 2.) Simply because a 6 state chooses to change its laws does not mean that the previous law was unequivocally 7 unconstitutional. 8 United States District Court Northern District of California 9 With respect to whether longer periods of pre-arraignment detention actually exist simply because indigent detainees cannot afford bail, the evidence firmly establishes this component. 10 Admissions from CBAA and the Sheriff, as well as statistical and summary evidence, demonstrate 11 that the use of the Bail Schedule results in longer statutory detention of the plaintiff class. The 12 proposition is not credibly challenged. Its truth is grounded in logic. 13 The Sheriff, whose day-to-day activities include managing this process, concedes: 14 “Plaintiffs’ general point . . . that individuals who are able to pay the amount in the bail schedule . 15 . . can obtain release more quickly than those who obtain release through a prearraignment 16 application to a magistrate facilitated by the OR Project . . . is undoubtedly true.” (Dkt. No. 149 at 17 1; see also Dkt. No. 101 at 1 (“Those who can pay are released at a time of their choosing . . . . 18 Those who cannot pay must wait.”).) CBAA’s own Rule 30(b)(6) witness concurs. When asked 19 to identify the “fastest way to secure a release in the City and County of San Francisco” in the 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 and Socialist Workers Party v. March Fong Eu, 591 F.2d 1252 (9th Cir. 1978), cert denied, 441 U.S. 946 (1979) in support thereof, neither of which involved the right at issue here. Halet, 672 F.2d at 1311. 47 Moreover, CBAA’s position is disingenuous given that a key issue being litigated on the last round of motions for summary judgment was whether “pretrial liberty” was fundamental in the pre-arraignment context such that the detention at issue here implicates a fundamental right triggering strict scrutiny review. See Dkt. No. 132 at 16, 19. 48 In any event, CBAA appears to concede that application of the strict scrutiny standard is appropriate if the Court finds that the Sheriff’s use of the Bail Schedule in the pre-arraignment period significantly deprives plaintiffs of their fundamental right to liberty. See CBAA’s CrossMSJ at 8. As discussed herein, the Court finds that such a deprivation exists. 28 1 period between arrest and arraignment, he responded: “100 percent cash.” (Clayton Depo Tr. at 2 84:20–85:2.) “And then . . . working with the bail agent [would be] the second fastest[,]” i.e., the 3 posting of a surety bond. (Id. at 85:8–10.) CBAA’s response to these longer detention periods merely reinforces their existence. For 4 5 instance, CBAA suggests that a detainee would prefer detention because a public defender may 6 have advised the detainee to wait for rebooking. Other justifications proffered by CBAA are that 7 the OR Project may be slow at processing arrestees, or that a duty judge may have been 8 unavailable to consider a section 1269c application or OR application immediately following its 9 submission, or may have decided the arrestee should be detained.49 None of these arguments 10 persuade.50 As to the first, CBAA misconstrues the testimony. The San Francisco Public Defender’s United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 Office’s 30(b)(6) witness testified that a public defender may advise a detainee to wait for 13 rebooking in light of the arrestee’s indigent status and ability to pay the 10% bail bond premium. 14 Namely, a public defender “basically . . . explain[s] the consequences of bailing out” to an 15 individual who may be able to “scrape up the 10 percent fee,” that is “that the 10 percent will not 16 be returned even if the case is discharged.”51 Ms. Patterson’s surety bail contract corroborates this 17 view. 18 As to the other possible causes, CBAA offers no evidence in support thereof. Nonetheless, 19 CBAA’s assertions regarding the same do not surprise. The purported “causes” of longer 20 detention are, in fact, merely collateral consequences of the sole cause, that being, indigence. 21 Given that all parties agree that cash and the posting of a surety bond are the fastest ways to be 22 released, the longer detention stems from the generic use of San Francisco’s Bail Schedule, which 23 24 49 25 50 26 27 28 See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 6–7. The Court disregards a myriad of irrelevant, unsubstantiated, or non-evidentiary based arguments which CBAA proffers. See, e.g., CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 7 (arguing that “an arrestee may choose to bail out because their scheduled bail amount was lower than the opportunity cost of awaiting duty judge review”). 51 See Exh. 1 to CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 33:23–34:4, 34:8–14. 29 1 mandates detention unless the scheduled amount is paid. Said differently, arrestees who can 2 afford to bail themselves out are never in the position of having to deal with such collateral 3 consequences.52 4 5 Francisco arrestees who are released after posting secured money bail are detained, on average, 6 12.8 hours less than arrestees who obtain release through the OR Project and who spend an 7 average of 25.4 hours in jail. (See PRSS Fact 6.) Thus, those who obtain release through the OR 8 Project spend, on average, more than twice as much time behind bars than those who are able to 9 post bail. The time detained can be even greater for others, such as Ms. Buffin, who was 10 11 United States District Court Northern District of California As for the issue of whether plaintiffs’ deprivation is “significant,” it is undisputed that San incarcerated for 46 hours. Here, the time differential is but one component of the analysis. “Significance” is 12 measured by more than just a difference in hours.53 Plaintiff Buffin’s experience evidences the 13 real-world consequences of such a deprivation; she lost her job. She is not alone. The evidence 14 reveals that individuals can also lose their housing, public benefits, and child custody, and be 15 burdened by significant long-term debt due to a short period of detention.54 Moreover, many 16 detainees “plead guilty (or no contest) at an early stage in the proceedings to secure their release 17 from custody.” (Workgroup Report at 14.)55 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 52 CBAA creates a new argument based on the definition of “indigence,” namely “[t]he fact that an arrestee might be able to post a $5,000 bond (or a surety bond for 10% or less of that amount) does not mean that the same arrestee could do the same thing for a $50,000 bond; in the latter case, the sole reason for the detention would be the severity of the offense charged.” CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 7. CBAA does not persuade. In either case, if class members could afford to post bail, they would be released faster. The only difference is their inability to pay the higher $50,000 bail amount. Moreover, the argument does not impact the constitutional analysis. 53 CBAA cites no authority in support of its suggestion that plaintiffs must show how the extra 12.8-hour detention causes negative consequences. See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 2, 4, 13. Rather, plaintiffs must offer evidence showing “significance.” In that context, evidence of negative consequences is relevant to the Court’s analysis. 26 54 27 55 28 See Workgroup Report at 13, 51; Klement Decl. ¶ 2; Do the Math at 16. Plaintiffs argue that the Sheriff’s practice of “charge stacking” and charging “wobbler” offenses as felonies broadens the class and exacerbates the harm to the same. Plaintiffs’ MSJ at 15–16. However, these allegations are mentioned nowhere in plaintiffs’ 3AC, are irrelevant to 30 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 Further, the 48-hour presumption must be viewed in context. Nothing stopped the 2 government from taking Ms. Buffin to court on Tuesday morning, ten hours after she was booked, 3 or even on Wednesday. Had it done so, Ms. Buffin would have seen a judge who could have 4 made a determination as to her continued detention prior to arraignment. Holding her four and 5 one-half times longer and well after the court had closed on Wednesday suggests that the 6 government is unjustifiably taking advantage of the 48-hour window.56 Such “delay for delay’s 7 sake” has been condemned by the Supreme Court. See McLaughlin, 500 U.S. at 56. 8 Given the consequences which flow from an extended duration of pre-arraignment 9 detention, the Court finds the deprivation significant. Accordingly, plaintiffs have shown that the 10 Sheriff, through use of the Bail Schedule, has significantly deprived plaintiffs of their fundamental 11 right to liberty by sole reason of their indigence. 12 2. 13 Step 2: Have plaintiffs established a prima facie case under the strict scrutiny standard? Plaintiffs bear the burden of identifying a plausible alternative that is less restrictive 14 15 and at least as effective at serving the government’s compelling interests, here identified as 16 protecting public safety and assuring future court appearances.57 The burden is not high, and it 17 18 19 plaintiffs’ claims, and appear to concern practices of entities not before the Court. Thus, the Court disregards them. 56 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 The factual record gathered in this case illuminates the need to test and maintain the classification of a presumption. Namely, the evidence suggests law enforcement is abusing the “48” hours by not moving the cases forward. Rather than taking Ms. Buffin promptly to court, law enforcement waited until the 48 hours had almost expired. That Ms. Buffin spent 46 hours in custody is consistent with the Sheriff’s Department’s observation that “most arrestees are presented within the last four hours of the legal time limit.” See Sheriff’s Department Memo at 3. For those incarcerated before the weekend, the 48 hours can stretch as far as five days. 57 In their motion for summary judgment, plaintiffs take the position that there are three compelling government interests at issue: (i) protecting public safety; (ii) protecting the rights of arrestees; and (iii) encouraging future court appearances. See Plaintiffs’ MSJ at 22. However, presumably in response to CBAA’s argument that the liberty interest of detainees is a countervailing individual interest to be weighed against the two compelling government interests, (see CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 16), plaintiffs have retreated from their position that “protecting the rights of the accused” is a compelling interest at issue in this case and focused their Reply in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to CBAA’s Cross Motion 31 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 need not rise to the level of scientific precision. See, e.g., Ashcroft, 542 U.S. at 666–68 (upholding 2 injunction enjoining Child Online Protection Act (“COPA”), which imposed criminal liability for 3 commercially disseminating online material harmful to minors, in light of existing non-legal 4 alternatives, namely online blocking and filtering software equally effective and less restrictive 5 than COPA); Video Software Dealers Ass’n v. Schwarzenegger, 556 F.3d 950, 965 (9th Cir. 2009) 6 (relying on hypothetical alternative to affirm a permanent injunction of newly enacted California 7 statute imposing labeling requirements on the sale of violent video games to minors). Plaintiffs 8 are correct that in the context of strict scrutiny, when a court asks whether a proposed alternative is 9 “less restrictive,” it is making an inquiry into whether the challenged law is necessary as a means 10 to accomplishing the end. See Constitutional Law Principles and Policies at 567 (“[T]he law must 11 be shown to be ‘necessary’ as a means to accomplishing the end. This requires proof that the law 12 is the least restrictive or least discriminatory alternative.”) (footnote omitted).58 13 Here, plaintiffs’ proposed alternative is to “rely solely on a computerized risk assessment 14 process (such as the current San Francisco Public Safety Assessment (‘PSA’)[,]”59 with S.B. 10 15 having “essentially implemented” this alternative, serving as a “more detailed version” of the 16 same.60 The Court previously outlined the relevant portions of S.B. 10, on which plaintiffs now 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 for Summary Judgment, (Dkt. No. 305), on the other two stated interests. The Court proceeds with its discussion accordingly. 58 CBAA attacks plaintiffs’ reliance on cases finding alternatives less concrete and specific than plaintiffs’ alternative to be plausible. See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 16. However, CBAA cites no authority supporting the notion that a proposed alternative must be more precise than the one proffered. In any event, S.B. 10 serves as evidence that a plausible alternative to the current system exists. 59 Dkt. No. 221 at 2. While plaintiffs’ notice of proposed alternatives identified two other alternatives—namely, “re-institute the San Francisco interview process” or “use a combination computerized risk assessment and interview process,” (id.)—plaintiffs’ instant motion for summary judgment focuses on the first of the three proposed alternatives. Indeed, plaintiffs concede that “the best evidence of [p]laintiffs’ position is the passage of S.B. 10.” Plaintiffs’ MSJ at 19–20. The Court tailors its analysis accordingly. 60 CBAA’s last-ditch attempt to evade its burden on the ground that S.B. 10 was not previously identified as an alternative is disingenuous. See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 17. Indeed, the parties submitted several filings with the Court regarding the passage of S.B. 10 and discussed it at 32 1 rely. (See supra at 14–15.) Importantly, the government itself concurs that the alternative is 2 plausible; that is, the state has now enacted what it believes to be a less restrictive yet at least as 3 effective alternative, with the express goal of reasonably assuring public safety and individuals’ 4 return to court.61 United States District Court Northern District of California 5 Unlike the current reliance on a bail schedule, S.B. 10 requires all jurisdictions to generate 6 prior to arraignment for each arrestee “[t]he results of a risk assessment using a validated risk 7 assessment instrument, including the risk score or risk level.” S.B. 10 § 1320.9(a)(1); see also 8 supra at 14–15. Amongst its provisions, individuals who are assessed as low- or medium-risk to 9 public safety and of failure to appear in court shall be released on their own recognizance, prior to 10 arraignment and without review by the court, “with the least restrictive nonmonetary condition or 11 combination of conditions that will reasonably assure public safety and the person’s return to 12 court.” Id. §§ 1320.10(b), (c). This will allow for release when court is not in session. Further, 13 individuals arrested for misdemeanors, with some exceptions, will be released within 12 hours (id. 14 § 1320.8), i.e., roughly the average length of those posting bail for release under the current 15 system. 16 CBAA disputes the plausibility of the proposed alternative. First, CBAA argues that, to 17 the extent plaintiffs’ alternative would eliminate use of the Bail Schedule for all arrestees, “it is 18 not plausible because it would deprive individuals of their right to be released on bail by sufficient 19 sureties, as memorialized in California’s Constitution (Art. 1, § 12).” (CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 23.) 20 In so doing, CBAA effectively attempts to challenge the constitutionality of S.B. 10 by proxy. 21 This Court is not faced with an affirmative challenge to the constitutionality of S.B. 10 itself. It 22 has repeatedly cautioned that this action is narrow in scope. Principles of federalism limit the 23 Court’s review and counsel in favor of narrow relief to the extent required. See U.S. v. Ron Pair 24 25 26 27 28 length at the September 7, 2018 pretrial conference. In that context, CBAA did not seek leave of court to conduct further discovery on that topic. Rather, it conceded that renewed motions for summary judgment were the appropriate course. Accordingly, CBAA’s argument that S.B. 10’s framework is an objectionable fourth proposed alternative does not persuade. 61 This concession further distinguishes this case from Walker and ODonnell II. 33 1 Enters., Inc., 489 U.S. 235, 245 (1989) (“[A] basic principle of our federalism [is] that ‘the States’ 2 interest in administering their criminal justice systems free from federal interference is one of the 3 most powerful of the considerations that should influence a court considering equitable types of 4 relief.”) (quoting Kelly v. Robinson, 479 U.S. 36, 49 (1986)). The Court is not considering the 5 wholesale elimination of bail as it is outside the scope of this action. 6 7 “insurmountable administrative problems” for the Sheriff in determining which arrestees “cannot 8 afford” bail. (CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 5.) However, CBAA has proffered no evidence in support 9 thereof aside from the bald conclusion of its expert. Nor has the Sheriff conceded such 10 11 United States District Court Northern District of California Next, CBAA argues that the proposed alternative is not plausible because it would pose “insurmountable” problems.62 Plaintiffs’ burden is not high, nor is scientific precision required. Against that backdrop, 12 the Court notes that S.B. 10 was passed after a year of study by the California Chief Justice’s 13 Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup, which included the then-presiding judge of the San 14 Francisco superior court. (See Workgroup Report at ECF p. 3.) The Workgroup found that as 15 many as 60 pretrial risk assessment instruments exist in the United States, which, after study, 16 revealed various common factors as “good predictors of court appearance and/or danger to the 17 community.” (Id. at 47.) Such indicators include current charges, outstanding warrants, pending 18 charges, and active community supervision at the time of arrest, and criminal history, history of 19 violence, residential stability over time, employment stability, community ties, and history of 20 substance abuse. (Id.) San Francisco has already deployed a risk assessment unit, the results of 21 which are constantly being used to enhance its effectiveness. (See Do the Math at 1.) The 22 Workgroup found similar urban areas which have successfully used such a model, including 23 neighboring Santa Clara County and Washington, D.C. (Id. at 40–41, 90–93.)63 Collectively, the 24 25 26 27 62 For instance, other jurisdictions have had indigent detainees execute affidavits, plus public defenders routinely evaluate such issues. See, e.g., Walker, 901 F.3d at 1253 (describing City of Calhoun’s affidavit-based process for determining inability to pay); ODonnell II, 900 F.3d at 222 (referencing Harris County’s use of affidavits showing inability to pay). 63 28 See also Exh. 20 to Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ (“Weisberg Report”) ¶ 37, Dkt. No. 283-20 (plaintiffs’ expert opinion regarding Washington, D.C. as “the so-called gold standard for 34 1 United States District Court Northern District of California 2 evidence demonstrates that a plausible alternative to the current system exists. In order to analyze whether plaintiffs’ proposed alternative is less restrictive and at least as 3 effective than the Bail Schedule in serving the government’s compelling interests, the Court must 4 also consider how the Bail Schedule itself enhances public safety and ensures future court 5 appearance. Importantly, the record is devoid of any evidence showing that the Bail Schedule 6 considers either of the articulated goals.64 CBAA’s own Rule 30(b)(6) witness testified that he 7 do[esn’t] know why the judges did th[e] schedule the way they did[,]” noting that “there’s no 8 requirement for any input, data collection, deviation reports, [or] comparative data . . . in putting 9 together the schedule.”65 Further, CBAA’s own expert admitted that there are no peer-reviewed 10 studies that have empirically addressed questions specifically regarding the effectiveness of bail 11 schedules, and that such schedules are simply used for “operational efficiency.”66 12 Absent any evidence justifying the Bail Schedule as a means for accomplishing the 13 government’s compelling interests, the Court finds that “operational efficiency” does not trump a 14 significant deprivation of liberty.67 Merely assigning a random dollar amount to a Penal Code 15 16 17 18 19 bail reform”). 64 In response to the Court’s observation that “there seems to be no indication in the Schedule[,] and there’s certainly nothing in the record that has been established[,] that identifies any relationship between the money being demanded in the Schedule and [the] compelling governmental interest[s,]” CBAA conceded, “[t]hat evidence is not in the record, your honor.” January 8, 2019 Hearing Tr. at 22:24–23:8. 20 21 22 23 24 25 This is unsurprising considering that under the Bail Schedule, the bail for a DUI is relatively low, even if an individual arrestee has a history of prior DUI arrests, but the bail for a non-violent drug offense involving small quantities of drugs can be two to five times higher. Klement Decl. ¶ 7. Moreover, as CBAA concedes, some arrestees who are not eligible for prearraignment OR release due to a “release not recommended” score on the PSA/DMF nevertheless have the option to secure release under the Bail Schedule. PRSS Fact 23. 65 Clayton Depo Tr. at 50:21–22, 66:15–18. 66 See Morris Report at 40. 26 67 27 28 The claim of “operational efficiency” in any case is questionable. For instance, Kentucky “requires its pretrial officers to interview individuals within 12 hours of arrest[,]” which expedites review considerably. Weisberg Report ¶ 28 n.12 (internal quotation marks omitted). Here, the record suggests operational inefficiencies as a source of the lengthy detentions. 35 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 section does not address an actual person’s ability or willingness to appear in court or the public 2 safety risk that person poses. At most, all that can be discerned is that the amounts are so high as 3 to keep all arrestees detained except for those who can afford to be released. This practice, then, 4 replaces the presumption of innocence with the presumption of detention. Accordingly, the Bail 5 Schedule, which merely associates an amount of money with a specific crime, without any 6 connection to public safety or future court appearance, cannot be deemed necessary.68 7 CBAA’s primary evidentiary showing posits that release on bail produces lower failure to 8 appear (“FTA”) rates, namely “Release on Bail” at 20.6% versus “Project O.R.” at 27.3%, a delta 9 of 6.7 percentage points.69 (See Morris Report at 5.)70 The Court understands that data on the 10 topics raised is limited. Nonetheless, CBAA’s expert has analyzed the little data that does exist in 11 a manner ignoring the narrow scope of this case, presumably to support CBAA’s view.71 Given 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Consistent with Ms. Buffin’s experience, the Sheriff’s Department’s Work Group to Re-Envision the Jail Replacement Project identified law enforcement’s failure to provide the district attorney charging information until four hours before the end of the statutory period and the Treasurer’s report confirmed the chronic delay. See Sheriff’s Department Memo at 3; Do the Math at 16–17. Law enforcement appears to respond to deadlines, suggesting faster review is plausible, whereas under the current model, delay until the end of the 48 hours has become the operational protocol. 68 In fact, the use of such an arbitrary schedule may not even satisfy an analysis under a rational basis review. See Constitutional Law Principles and Policies at 706 (explaining that the basic requirement of the rational basis test is “that a law meets rational basis review if it is rationally related to a legitimate government purpose”). The presumption of detention is not a legitimate government purpose. 69 Professor Morris also presents FTA statistics on other types of release such as Assertive Case Management, Supervised Pretrial Release, and Court OR, all of which typically occur at or after arraignment. See Morris Report at 5; Klement Decl. ¶ 15. 70 CBAA’s reference to this delta as “32% lower” seeks to imply a greater disparity than exists by comparing the 20.6 and 27.3 rates in terms of a percentage. CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 28. In terms of sheer numbers of detainees, according to the Morris Report, 10,553 were released on bail, and 20.6 percent, or 2,174, failed to appear, while 1,622 were released under Project OR, and 27.3 percent, or 443, failed to appear. Morris Report at 5. 71 The Court notes that Professor Morris claims there are only four empirical assessments which have comparatively addressed the impact of pretrial release mechanisms on FTA and bond forfeiture, three of which he prepared. See Morris Report at 9. Moreover, Professor Morris was the expert witness in the ODonnell case. Id. Because of the lack of a trial in this case, it is not clear whether a financial connection exists between Professor Morris and the bail industry. 36 1 the data provided, the Court finds CBAA’s statistical analysis flawed and unconvincing. First, this 2 case is focused on pre-arraignment release. Thus, the relevant comparison of FTA rates is those 3 who, pre-arraignment, were released on bail versus those released under the OR Project, and who 4 failed to appear at arraignment. These parameters are particularly important given the large 5 percentage of detainees who are never charged, i.e., 25 to 33 percent. Professor Morris’ analysis 6 based on historical FTA rates relates to “‘any’ failure to appear associated with an individual 7 booking[,]” including those rendered after judicial review at arraignment. (Morris Report at 5 8 (emphasis supplied).) United States District Court Northern District of California 9 Second, the data used to generate comparisons of historical FTA rates spans beyond the 10 period of use of the PSA Tool, which forms the basis of plaintiffs’ plausible alternative. The 11 Court finds the combined effect of Professor Morris’ data choices less reliable and persuasive than 12 other data presented. His approach raises concerns that he is exaggerating the supposed 13 differences between bail release and OR release. 14 Next, Professor Morris’ Propensity Score Matching (“PSM”) analysis—which, unlike his 15 analysis based on historical FTA rates, addresses “questions specific to whether an individual 16 defendant would be more or less likely to FTA if he/she were released via one method over 17 another (e.g., O.R. versus Surety)[,]” (Morris Report at 7)—found that surety FTA rates were 14.0 18 percentage points lower than OR FTA rates. (Id. at 7–8.) However, his analysis, again, does not 19 distinguish between arrestees released on bail or the OR Project who failed to appear at 20 arraignment versus those who failed to appear at a later proceeding. (See id. at 7.) Moreover, the 21 analysis appears to include Court OR (as opposed to only Project OR) to reach his conclusions 22 regarding FTA rates.72 23 24 By contrast, San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Tal Klement, who has served in that capacity since 2003, focused his FTA review on data pertaining only to the relevant pre- 25 26 72 27 28 To the extent CBAA claims that Professor Morris did an “apples-to-apples comparison,” the analysis remains elusive and the Court will scour no further. January 8, 2019 Hearing Tr. at 33:4–5. 37 1 arraignment period. Out of a total 1,697 individuals who failed to appear at arraignment between 2 2016 and 2018, 215 of those individuals had been released on bail, and 145 had been released 3 through Project OR. (See Klement Decl. ¶ 28.)73 Thus, a more appropriate FTA comparison 4 reveals better FTA results through the OR Project over bail. 5 In sum, plaintiffs’ proposed alternative—which entails an individualized inquiry into the 6 risk an arrestee has to public safety and of failure to appear—is consistent with the government’s 7 goals of enhancing public safety and ensuring court appearance and does not perpetuate the 8 deprivation of one’s liberty.74 Accordingly, plaintiffs have made a prima facie showing that it is 9 less restrictive and at least as effective at serving the state’s compelling interests than the Sheriff’s 10 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 73 CBAA has no response to Mr. Klement’s analysis other than a general objection to his declaration testimony “to the extent that [p]laintiffs appear to be using him as an undisclosed expert offering opinions on the underlying data.” CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 25. As discussed above, see supra note 20, this objection fails. Moreover, CBAA mischaracterizes Mr. Klement’s testimony to argue that “[p]laintiffs’ own evidence calls into question the PSA’s effectiveness at ensuring court appearance.” See CBAA’s Cross-MSJ at 19 (citing Klement Decl. ¶ 26). The cited paragraph actually shows that Mr. Klement doubts the effectiveness of cash bail, not the PSA, to wit: Having represented thousands of indigent arrestees in San Francisco, I do not believe that cash bail is the but-for cause for defendants to appear in court as directed. Indeed, many bail agents in San Francisco require arrestees and/or third parties to continue making installment payments whether or not the defendant appears in court. In my experience, the likelihood that a given defendant will appear in court as directed has much more to do with the defendant’s individual circumstances, such as the charges faced, resources available, family stability, mental health, available transportation, and homelessness. Klement Decl. ¶ 26. 74 For this reason, CBAA’s argument that plaintiffs’ proposal is more restrictive because it would eliminate one current option for pre-arraignment release (albeit an option available only to non-class members who can afford it) extends too far. As the Court has noted, this case presents a narrower question. Moreover, CBAA’s argument that plaintiffs’ alternative “has the potential to implement impermissible discrimination into the release/detain decision-making process on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, and/or income level” lacks an evidentiary basis. CBAA’s Reply ISO Cross-MSJ at 11 (emphasis supplied). Press releases are not evidence. Moreover, that the Judicial Council is inquiring into the topic may produce evidence, but none yet exists. Presumably, if found, and not rectified, battle lines will be drawn for some future dispute. 38 1 use of the Bail Schedule. United States District Court Northern District of California 2 3. 3 Step 3: Has CBAA shown that plaintiffs’ proposed alternative would be less effective at serving the government’s compelling interests or more restrictive? 4 Once a plaintiff makes a prima facie showing under a strict scrutiny analysis, the 5 burden shifts to the government to show that the proposed alternative would be less effective or 6 more restrictive. Most of the CBAA’s arguments in this regard overlap with its arguments in 7 response to plaintiffs’ initial burden. As for those not previously addressed, they are unavailing 8 given that plaintiffs’ proposed alternative entails an individualized inquiry into the risk an arrestee 9 has as to either public safety or a failure to appear and thus does not result in the deprivation of 10 one’s liberty solely due to one’s indigence.75 The Bail Schedule, by contrast, is arbitrary in that it 11 sets amounts without regard to any objective measurement and thus bears no relation to the 12 government’s interests in enhancing public safety and ensuring court appearance. It merely 13 provides a “Get Out of Jail” card for anyone with sufficient means to afford it. In light thereof, 14 CBAA cannot show that plaintiffs’ proposed alternative would be less effective at serving the 15 75 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 As for CBAA’s separate argument that it must show only that plaintiffs’ proposed alternative is less effective at achieving either state interests (as opposed to both), the Court disagrees. In its previous summary judgment order, the Court referred explicitly to the government’s compelling “interest(s),” in plural form because at that point, “plaintiffs and CBAA agree[d] that at a minimum the County has a compelling interest in ensuring that arrestees appear for trial.” MSJ Order at 20 (emphasis supplied). However, in the event other compelling interests were identified, CBAA’s showing as to the effectiveness of plaintiffs’ alternative(s) would have to address each interest. Thus, Professor Morris’ failure to consider public safety in his evaluation of the efficacy of proposed alternatives, except to the extent that he treated FTA/bond forfeiture as a proxy for public safety, deems any showing with respect to efficacy unavailing. See Exh. 7 to Sims Decl. ISO Plaintiffs’ MSJ at 68:9–25, Dkt. No. 283-7 (when asked how consideration of public safety factored into his opinions in this case, Professor Morris responded: “Sadly, there was no data that I could use to effectively assess it quantitatively, which is what I was tasked with, so I didn’t have information on recidivism rates. . . . [Public safety is] built in, in part, through bond forfeiture.”) CBAA’s attempt to evade its burden is particularly disingenous given its insistence that plaintiffs’ initial burden is to propose an alternative that is at least as effect as the Bail Schedule “at achieving both of the government’s compelling interests[.]” CBAA’s Reply ISO Cross-MSJ at 9 (emphasis in original); see also id. (arguing that “[e]ven if [p]laintiffs could show that their proposed alternative is at least as good as the Bail Schedule at ensuring public safety . . . , this showing would be insufficient to meet [p]laintiffs’ initial burden of an ‘as effective’ alternative, because that alternative would only meet half of the government’s compelling interests.”) (emphasis supplied). 39 1 government’s compelling interest or more restrictive and has thus failed to meet its burden under 2 the strict scrutiny standard. Accordingly, and within the confines of the issues defined herein, plaintiffs’ motion for 3 4 summary judgment is GRANTED, and CBAA’s cross-motion is DENIED.76 5 IV. 6 7 United States District Court Northern District of California 8 CONCLUSION Plaintiffs’ motion to revoke CBAA’s intervenor status is DENIED as it is based on the premature argument that Penal Code section 1269b has been repealed. Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment is GRANTED, and CBAA’s cross-motion for 9 summary judgment is DENIED. The evidence demonstrates that the Sheriff’s use of the Bail 10 Schedule significantly deprives plaintiffs of their fundamental right to liberty, and a plausible 11 alternative exists which is at least as effective and less restrictive for achieving the government’s 12 compelling interests in protecting public safety and assuring future court appearances. 13 Operational efficiency based upon a bail schedule which arbitrarily assigns bail amounts to a list 14 of offenses without regard to any risk factors or the governmental goal of ensuring future court 15 appearances is insufficient to justify a significant deprivation of liberty. 16 In terms of injunctive relief, the parties have not briefed the topic. In general, relief must 17 be narrowly tailored to address the extent of the constitutional violations found. See Dayton Bd. of 18 Ed. v. Brinkman, 433 U.S. 406, 420 (1977) (“Once a constitutional violation is found, a federal 19 court is required to tailor the scope of the remedy to fit the nature and extent of the constitutional 20 violation.”) (internal quotation marks omitted); Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70, 88 (1995) 21 (“[T]he nature of the . . . remedy is to be determined by the nature and scope of the constitutional 22 violation.”) (internal quotation marks omitted). Accordingly, the Court will issue an injunction 23 enjoining the Sheriff from using the Bail Schedule as a means of releasing a detainee who cannot 24 afford the amount but will delay issuing the injunction pending briefing. A separate scheduling 25 26 76 27 28 The Court need not rule on the remainder of CBAA’s evidentiary objections because the Court did not need to consider such evidence to resolve the instant cross-motions for summary judgment. 40 1 order shall issue. 2 This Order terminates Docket Numbers 282, 287, and 300. 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. 4 5 Dated: March 4, 2019 YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 6 7 8 9 10 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 41

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