Rod Pacheco , District Attorney, County of Riverside, William E. Mitchell , Assistant District Attorney, Alan D. Tate , Senior Deputy District Attorney, Riverside, CA, for Appellants District Attorney Intervenors, Steven S. Kaufhold, Counsel of Record, Chad A. Stegeman, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, San Francisco, CA, Thomas C. Goldstein, Troy D. Cahill, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC, for Appellants California State Republican Legislator Intervenors, Gary S. Olson, Sacramento, CA, Charles V. Fennessey, Sacramento, CA, for Appellants California State Republican Legislator Intervenors, Martin J. Mayer, Kimberly Hall Barlow, Ivy M. Tsai, Jones & Mayer, Fullerton, CA, for Appellants Sheriff, Chief Probation Officer, Police Chief, and Corrections Intervenors.
Justice KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case arises from serious constitutional violations in California's prison system. The violations have persisted for years. They remain uncorrected. The appeal comes to this Court from a three-judge District Court order directing California to remedy two ongoing violations of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, a guarantee binding on the States by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The...
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