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SIRIPONGS v. DAVIS

No. 00-15985.

282 F.3d 755 (2002)

Jaturun SIRIPONGS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gray DAVIS, Governor of California; Arthur Calderon, Warden of California State Prison at San Quentin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 7, 2002.

Amended April 17, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amitai Schwartz, Elizabeth Letcher, Law Offices of Amitai Schwartz, Berkeley, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Linda Schilling, Latham & Watkins, Costa Mesa, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jessica N. Blonien, California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before HUG, D.W. NELSON and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Jaturun Siripongs1 appeals the district court's denial of his request for attorneys' fees under the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d). We affirm.

I. Factual Background

Siripongs was convicted in 1983 of the murders of Pat Wattanaporn and Quach Nguyen and was sentenced to death. After bringing multiple direct and collateral challenges to his conviction...

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