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THOMPSON v. ENOMOTO

Nos. 89-16335, 89-16420.

915 F.2d 1383 (1990)

Maurice S. THOMPSON; Charles A. Green; John Gzikowski; Keith D. Williams; Ronald E. Lanphear; Chol Soo Lee; Andrew E. Robertson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jiro J. ENOMOTO (former Director, California Department of Corrections; current Director James Rowland); George Sumner, Warden (former Warden, San Quentin State Prison; current Warden Daniel Vasquez), Defendants-Appellants. Maurice S. THOMPSON; Charles A. Green; John Gzikowski; Keith D. Williams; Ronald E. Lanphear; Chol Soo Lee; Andrew E. Robertson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jiro J. ENOMOTO (former Director, California Department of Corrections; current Director James Rowland); George Sumner, Warden (former Warden, San Quentin State Prison; current Warden Daniel Vasquez), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey D. Wohl, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, Cal., Donald Specter, Laura B. Prado, Prison Law Office, San Quentin, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.

John G. Donhoff, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

Before HUG, SKOPIL and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges.

HUG, Circuit Judge:

California state prison officials appeal the district court's order modifying a 1980 consent decree between prison officials and a class of individually named inmates sentenced to death by the State of California and housed at San Quentin Prison. The inmates cross-appeal, opposing a particular section of the court's modification of the decree. We affirm.

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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Maurice Thompson and other inmates...

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