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GATES v. SHINN

No. 94-17146.

98 F.3d 463 (1996)

Jay Lee GATES; John Ronald Bertram, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ron SHINN; James Rowland; Nadim Khoury, M.D., Assistant Deputy Director-CDC Health Services; Kenneth Shepard, Chief Deputy Warden for CMF Clinical; Nicholas Poulos, M.D., Daniel E. Thor, Chief Physician and Surgeon, CMF; Paul Morentz, Chief Psychiatrist-CMF Outpatient Program; H MD; Bruce Baker; A R MD, Chief Psychiatrist Northern Reception Center; D. Michael O'Connor; Douglas G. Arnold, Acting Director of the California Department of Mental Health; Clyde Murrey, Acting Deputy Director for State Hospitals; Sylvia R.N., Executive Director DMH Vacaville Psychiatric Program; Eddie Ylst, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Siggins, Senior Assistant Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellants.

Michael W. Bien, Rosen, Bien & Asaro, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: GOODWIN, FARRIS and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

Prison officials were held in contempt of court for failing to obey a consent decree. The issue in the case is whether a consent decree requiring "appropriate" psychiatric care is specific enough to empower a court to hold prison officials in contempt for failure to do so. We conclude that it is not.

FACTS

Prisoners brought a class action challenging the constitutional adequacy of medical care at the California Medical Facility...

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