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MADRID v. GOMEZ

Nos. 96-17277, 97-16237.

150 F.3d 1030 (1998)

Alejandro MADRID, Carlos Lutz, Ronnie Dewberry, Steven Villa, Bruce Vorse, and Moses Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James GOMEZ, Steven Cambra, Susan Steinberg, M.D., Robert Ayers, Defendants-Appellants. Alejandro MADRID, Carlos Lutz, Ronnie Dewberry, Steven Villa, Bruce Vorse, and Moses Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Salvador Garcia, Intervenor-Plaintiff, v. James GOMEZ, Steven Cambra, Susan Steinberg, M.D., Robert Ayers, Defendants-Appellants, and T.K. Boyll, Sgt., Mark Bray, Correctional Officer, John Hagar, Special Master, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Jenkins (argued), Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellants.

David S. Steuer, Susan A. Creighton, and Ellen Solomon (argued), Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA; Donald Specter and Steven Fama, Prison Law Office, San Quentin, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: WOOD, HALL, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether the attorney's fee-limitations provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 apply to cases which were pending at the time of its enactment.

I

This case arose as a prisoner civil-rights class action challenging the conditions of confinement at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. Plaintiffs-Appellees Madrid and others ("prisoners") alleged a multitude of constitutional violations...

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