(Proposed) Order Appointing Guardian Ad Litem

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December 20, 1990

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  • Case Files, Matthews v. Kizer Hardbacks. (Proposed) Order Appointing Guardian Ad Litem, 1990. da69150f-5e40-f011-b4cb-7c1e5267c7b6. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/82f7986e-4380-4d69-9f46-7a1d1aa0cac3/proposed-order-appointing-guardian-ad-litem. Accessed June 17, 2025.

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    1 | JOEL R. sewvorl 1 

JACQUELINE WARREN i DEC 2 6 1990 

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37 
Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

18 (Additional counsel on following page) 

19 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

20 
ERIKA MATTHEWS AND JALISA MATTHEWS, ) 

21 | by their guardian ad litem Lisa ) Civ. No. 

Matthews, and PEOPLE UNITED FOR A ) 

22 || BETTER OAKLAND, On Behalf of ) CLASS ACTION 

Themselves and All Others Similarly ) 

23 || Situated, ) [PROPOSED] ORDER 
) APPOINTING GUARDIAN 

24 Plaintiffs, ) AD LITEM 

) 
25 Vie ) 

) 
56 | KENNETH KIZER, Director, California ) 

Department of Health Services, ) 

27 ) 

Defendant. ) 

28 ) 
  

l.       [ PROPOSED] ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM 

 



  

    

EDWARD M. CHEN 
ACLU FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

1663 Mission Street, Suite 460 

San Francisco, CA 94103 

(415) 621-2493 

2. 

PROPOSED] ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM    



  

Litem regularly came on for hearing before the Honorable 

The vor 1 ds Lisa Matthews for svodliP seit of Guardian Ad 

  

on January , 1991. Having considered the 
  

    

arguments of counsel and the evidence presented, the Court finds 

that: 

1) Infant plaintiffs Jalisa and Erika Matthews do not have 

the capacity to bring their own claims challenging the 

denial of lead blood screening or treatment and lack any 

other guardian or duly appointed representative; 

2) The movant and mother of the infant plaintiffs, Lisa 

Matthews, will competently represent plaintiffs’ 

interests in this action and does not have any interests 

adverse to them. 

NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby ordered that Lisa Matthews is 

appointed Guardian Ad Litem in this action for her two infant 

children, plaintiffs Erika Matthews and Jalisa Matthews. 

Dated: January +1991 

  

U.S. District Court Judge 

3. 

[PROPOSED] ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN Al

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