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PARSONS v. RYAN

No. 13-16396.

754 F.3d 657 (2014)

Victor Antonio PARSONS; Shawn Jensen; Steve Swartz; Dustin Brislan; Sonia Rodriguez; Christina Verduzco; Jackie Thomas; Jeremy Smith; Robert Carrasco Gamez, Jr.; Maryanne Chisholm; Desiree Licci; Joseph Hefner; Joshua Polson; Charlotte Wells; Arizona Center for Disability Law, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Charles L. RYAN; Richard Pratt, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 5, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas D. Acedo (argued) and Daniel P. Struck , Struck Wieneke & Love, P.L.C., Chandler, AZ; Thomas C. Horne , Arizona Attorney General, and Michael E. Gottfried , Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants-Appellants.

David C. Fathi (argued), ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, D.C.; Daniel Pochada , ACLU Foundation of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; Daniel C. Barr , Amelia M. Gerlicher , Kirstin T. Eidenbach , Perkins Coie LLP, Phoenix, AZ; Caroline Mitchell , Jones Day, San Francisco, CA; Donald Specter and Corene Kendrick , Prison Law Office, Berkeley, CA; John Laurens Wilkes , Jones Day, Houston, TX; Jennifer K. Messina , Jones Day, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Catherine Weiss , Michael Hahn , Jason Halper , and Monica Perrette , Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Roseland, NJ; Mark A. Chavez , Chavez & Gertler LLP, Mill Valley, CA, for Amici Curiae American Friends Service Committee, Center for Children's Law and Policy, Children's Rights, Impact Fund, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), NAMI-Arizona, National Center for Youth Law, National Disability Rights Network, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Juvenile Defender Center, Pacific Juvenile Defender Center, The ARC of the United States, and Youth Law Center.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, JOHN T. NOONAN, and PAUL J. WATFORD, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

The defendants, senior officials of the Arizona Department of Corrections ("ADC"), appeal an order certifying a class and a subclass of inmates in Arizona's prison system who claim that they are subject to systemic Eighth Amendment violations. The inmates allege that numerous policies and practices of statewide application governing medical care, dental care, mental health care, and conditions of confinement in isolation...

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