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CASTRO v. TERHUNE

No. 11-16837.

712 F.3d 1304 (2013)

Carlos CASTRO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Cal TERHUNE; G. Bonnie Garibay; J. Batchelor; S.C. Wolhwend; Robert L. Ayers, Jr., Warden; A. Scribner; J. Stokes; E. Derusha, Correctional Officer; Michael G. Yarborough, Warden; L. Hood; C. Campbell; A.M. Gonzales; M. Ayala; J. Martinez; A. Jordan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 5, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Burns, Jr. , James E. Thompson (briefed and argued), and Jennifer N. Nejad (argued), Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Jonathan L. Wolff , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas S. Patterson , Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Brendan M. Kenny , Deputy Attorney General (briefed), and Jose Zelidon-Zepeda , Deputy Attorney General (argued), San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: JEROME FARRIS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Under the "void-for-vagueness" doctrine, due process requires enactments to be written with "sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement." Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352, 357, 103 S.Ct. 1855, 75 L.Ed.2d 903 (1983). Cal.Code Regs. tit. 15, § 3378(c)(4),...

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