TOUSSAINT v. YOCKEY

Nos. 83-1678, 83-1775.

722 F.2d 1490 (1984)

Joseph TOUSSAINT, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Samuel YOCKEY, Acting Director of Corrections, Reginald Pulley, Warden, San Quentin Prison; Robert Rees, Superintendent, Deuel Vocational Institution, Alan Stagner, Superintendent, Correctional Training Facility (Soledad), Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford Jay Rosen, Rosen & Remcho, San Francisco, Cal., James Smith, Smith, Snedeker & Comiskey, Sacramento, Cal., Bernard Zimmerman, Sarah Flanagan, Mark Chavez, Andrea Resnick, Sidney M. Wolinsky, Morris J. Baller, David Lew, San Francisco, Cal., Michael Satris, San Quentin, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

William D. Stein, Karl Mayer, John Van de Kamp, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Before TRASK, and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON, District Judge.


CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs are a class of approximately 2,000 prisoners confined in administrative segregation in four California State Prisons: Deuel Vocational Institution, Folsom Prison, San Quentin Prison, and Soledad Correctional Training Facility. Defendants are the wardens of the four prisons and the California Director of Corrections. Plaintiffs sought relief on two claims. In Wright v. Enomoto, 462 F.Supp. 397

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