BROWN v. PLATA

No. 09-1233.

131 S.Ct. 1910 (2011)

563 U.S. 493

Edmund G. BROWN, Jr., Governor of California, et al., Appellants, v. Marciano PLATA et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 23, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carter G. Phillips , Washington, DC, for appellants.

Donald Specter , Berkeley, CA, for appellees.

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.

Edmund G. Brown Jr. , Attorney General of California, James M. Humes , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros , State Solicitor General, Gordon Burns, Deputy Solicitor General, Jonathan L. Wolff , Rochelle C. East , Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Kyle A. Lewis , Danielle F. O'Bannon , Deputy Attorneys General, San Francisco, CA, Carter G. Phillips , Counsel of Record, Eamon P. Joyce , Tara Mikkilineni, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, Jerrold C. Schaefer , Paul B. Mello , S. Anne Johnson , Samantha D. Wolff , Renju P. Jacob , Hanson Bridgett LLP, San Francisco, CA, Jennifer J. Clark (Ms. Clark is admitted only in Maryland and is practicing law in the District of Columbia pending application for admission to the D.C. Bar and under the supervision of principals of the firm who are members in good standing of the D.C. Bar), Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, for Appellants.

Michael W. Bien , Jane E. Kahn , Ernest Galvan , Amy Whelan , Lisa Ells , Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP, San Francisco, CA, Paul D. Clement , Counsel of Record, Ashley C. Parrish , Zachary D. Tripp , Candice Chiu, King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC, Donald Specter , Steve Fama , Alison Hardy , Sara Norman , Rebekah Evenson , Prison Law Office, Berkeley, CA, for Coleman Appellees.

Daniel M. Lindsay , David A. Sanders , California Correctional Peace Officers' Association, West Sacramento, CA, Laurie J. Hepler , Counsel of Record, Gregg McLean Adam , Gonzalo C. Martinez , Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP, San Francisco, CA, Jeffrey L. Fisher , Pamela S. Karlan , Stanford Law School, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, CA, for Appellee Intervenor California Correctional Peace Officers' Association.


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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