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ARMSTRONG v. BROWN

No. 12-17103.

768 F.3d 975 (2014)

John ARMSTRONG; James Amauric; Richard Ponciano; Jack Swensen; Billy Beck; Judy Fendt; Walter Fratus; Gregory Sandoval; Darlene Madison; Peter Richardson; Steven Hill; David Rose; David Blessing; Elio Castro; Elmer Umbenhower; Raymond Hayes; Gene Horrocks; Kiah Mincey; Clifton Feathers; Willie Johnson; David Badillo; James Simmons; Flora Abrams; Joey Gough; Timothy Whisman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edmund G. BROWN, Jr.; Michael Minor; Matthew L. Cate; Diana Toche; Chris Meyer; Kathleen Dickinson; Margarita Perez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 26, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California, Jonathan L. Wolff , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jay C. Russell , Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Janelle M. Smith , Deputy Attorney General, Jay M. Goldman (argued), Supervising Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Donald Specter (argued), Warren George , Rebekah Evenson , and Penny Godbold , Prison Law Office, Berkeley, CA; Michael W. Bien , Gay C. Grunfeld , Lisa Ells , Blake Thompson , and Michael Freedman, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA; and Linda Kilb , Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, Inc., Berkeley, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

For more than two decades, disabled prisoners have been mired in litigation aimed at bringing California's prison facilities into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), the Rehabilitation Act ("RA"), and the U.S. Constitution. In this appeal, Defendants, officials responsible for the state's corrections system (collectively, the "State"), challenge a 2012 order in which the district court modified the...

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