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JEFFERS v. GOMEZ

Nos. 99-15867, 99-15868, 99-15869 and 99-15870.

240 F.3d 845 (2001)

Donnell Jeffers, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Gomez, Director, California Department of Corrections; Theo White, Warden, California State Prison at Sacramento; Sam Bess, Correctional Officer at California State Prison at Sacramento; Margaret Yerby, Correctional Officer at California State Prison at Sacramento, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 20, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse M. Rivera, Michael E. Vinding, Law Offices of Moreno & Rivera, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant Sam Bess.

Douglas P. Adams, Adams & Mason, Inc., Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant Margaret Yerby.

John D. Adkisson, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant James Gomez.

Jennifer Weck, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, California, for defendant-appellant Theo White.

John H. Scott, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: Ruggero J. Aldisert, Alex Kozinski and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge:

These appeals by California correctional officers, a former prison warden and the former state Director of the Department of Corrections from the denial by the district court of their motions for summary judgment on the ground of qualified immunity require us to decide whether emergency responses and prison security measures, undertaken to control a large-scale disturbance in a prison yard, constituted Eighth Amendment violations under circumstances...

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