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FREITAG v. AYERS

Nos. 03-16702, 03-17184, 03-17398.

463 F.3d 838 (2006)

Deanna L. FREITAG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert J. AYERS, Jr.; Teresa Schwartz; Augustine Lopez; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Defendants-Appellants, and David A. Carmichael; G. Rodman; Paul Dillard; Barry O'Neill; George Neotti, Defendants. Deanna L. Freitag, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert J. Ayers, Jr.; Teresa Schwartz; Augustine Lopez; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Defendants-Appellants, and David A. Carmichael; G. Rodman; Paul Dillard; Barry O'Neill; George Neotti, Defendants. Deanna L. Freitag, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert J. Ayers, Jr.; Teresa Schwartz; Augustine Lopez; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Defendants-Appellants, and David A. Carmichael; G. Rodman; Paul Dillard; Barry O'Neill; George Neotti, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted and Filed September 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob A. Appelsmith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Vincent J. Scally, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Pamela Y. Price and John L. Burris, Oakland, CA, and Charles Stephen Ralston, Berkeley, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, JOHN T. NOONAN, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.

May a state department of corrections be held liable for prison officials' failure to correct a hostile work environment that is the result of male prisoners' sexual harassment of female guards? We answer that question, "Yes."

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and three Pelican Bay State Prison (Pelican Bay) administrators appeal a judgment in favor of Deanna Freitag, a former correctional officer...

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