HINES v. YOUSEFF

No. 15-16145, No. 15-17076, No. 15-17155, No. 15-17201.

914 F.3d 1218 (2019)

Darnell T. HINES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ashrafe E. YOUSEFF, M.D.; Godwin C. Ugueze, M.D.; Joshua Garza, RNP; M. Aguirre, Defendants-Appellees. Arthur Duane Jackson; Leonard M. Lujan; Marcus Jackson; Rodney Taylor; Lacedric W. Johnson; L. T. Belton; Norman Johnson; Corey Lamar Smith; Frederick Beagle; Abdulle Abukar, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor; Matthew Cate, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Jeffrey Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Paul D. Brazelton, Warden, Pleasant Valley State Prison; James D. Hartley, Warden, Avenal State Prison, Defendants-Appellants. Corey Lamar Smith; Dion Barnett; Christopher E. Garner; Rodney Ray Roberts; Jeremy Romo; Danny Dallas; Frederick Beagle; Don Belardes; Floyd Boyd; Richard Burke; Joseph Bustamonte; Charles Joseph Carter; Otha Clark; Donald Dibble; Jerome Felder; Candelario Garza; Jeremy Lee Hollis; Scott Imuta; George Johnson; Bruce Koklich; Grady Montgomery; Peter Romero; Josh Thomas; Aaron Tillis; Rene Villanueva; Bertrum Westbrook; Wayne James Woods; Abdulle Abukar; Ruben Arechiga; John Wesley Bess; Michael Blue; David Cox; Orlando Creswell; Daniel Dayton; Pablo Dominguez; Josh Draper; Kenji Dominique Jackson; Albert Sherrod; Adrian Sepulveda; Kirk Smith; Hector Talamantes; Ismael Torres-Robles; Kenneth Washington; Thomas Wiley; Darren Charles Williams; Theodore Wood; Donald Wright; George Yount; Garland Baker; Charles McQuarn; Richard Adams; David Atzet; Derrico Aubrey; Daniel Boland; Christopher Bonds; Keevan Burks; Kevin Call; Joseph DeJesus; Gerald W. Dickson; Eric Donaldson; Roy Lee Doss; Joseph Alfonso Duran; James Farr; Joseph Ferris; Alvin Flowers; Stephen Franklin; Aubrey Galloway; John Ray Gholar; Robert Gonzalez; Vernon Grant; Walter Green; Robert Harris; Sinoa Hercules; Bret Hill; Adrian Johnson; Ellis Clay Hollis; Edward Jones; Anthony R. Jones; Lawrence Kerner; Titi Lavea; Cleofas Lewis; Michael Manning; Robert Maeschek; Daniel Masushige; Ellis McCloud; Brandon McDonald; Jeffrey McDonald; Juan Meza; Herschel Mitchell; Noel Morales; Raymond Newsom; Jesus Antonio Perez; Harvey Rayburn; Jorge Augusto Reyes; Jay Roach; Paul Richardson; Tyrone Sanders; Johnny O. Sanchez; Edward Spence; Tracy L. Stewart; Louis Thomas; Elonza Jesse Tyler; Vance Utley; Byron West; William Wiley; Rodney Williams; Robert Wolters; Michael Morrow; Damor Hill; Corey Campbell; Robert Conley; Sinohe Hercules; Juan Carlos Martinez; Juan Penalva; Robert Preston, Jr.; John Arthur Ruggles; Willie Steels; Solomon Vasquez; George Lewis; Richard Arteaga; Pablo Castaneda; Chaney Clifford; Campbell Corey; Robert Conley; Alvin Cooper; Kenneth Glen Corley; Walter Cornethan; Roy Corning; Dennis Duree; Sinohe Hercules; Carlos Hernandez; Damor Hill; Danilo Jalotlot; Asad Lewis; George Lewis; Joe M. Lewis; Juan Martinez; Thomas Milford; Dale Miller; Daniel Molen; Andre Moody; Michael Morrow; Freddy Neal; Chek Ngoun; Sim Peav; Juan Penalva; Marvin Pierce; Robert Preston, Jr.; David Robinson; Ronald Rodriguez; John Arthur Ruggles; Lorenzo Sams; Leroy Smith; Willie Steels; Maurice Thomas; Tyrone Thompson; Roberto Vasquez; Solomon Vasquez; Patrick Wallace; Xavier S. Williams; Kenneth Yancey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor; Matthew Cate; James D. Hartley, Warden; Jeffrey A. Beard; Paul D. Brazelton, Warden; Susan L. Hubbard; Deborah Hysen; Scott Kernan; Chris Meyer; Tonya R. Rothchild; Teresa Schwartz; James A. Yates, Warden; Dwight Winslow, M.D.; Felix Igbinosa, M.D.; Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor, Defendants-Appellees. Lorenzo Gregge, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Matthew Cate; Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; James A. Yates, Warden, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 1, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg Zucker (argued) and Victoria Niewrzol , Affeld Grivakes Zucker LLP, Los Angeles, California; Tara Burd and Benjamin Pavone , Pavone & Fonner, San Diego, California; Matthew B. Pavone , Law Offices of Matthew B. Pavone, Novato, California; Frederik Spiess and Edward Burns , Burns & Schaldenbrand, Oceanside, California; David Elliot , Law Offices of David Elliot, San Diego, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellants Smith and Gregge, et al.

Greg W. Garrotto (argued), Law Offices of Garrotto & Garrotto, Los Angeles, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant Hines.

Milin Chun (argued), Brian M. Bush , and Raymond P. Boucher , Boucher LLP, Woodland Hills, California; Ian Wallach and Jason Feldman , Feldman & Wallach, Santa Monica, California; Mark Ozzello , Arias Ozzello & Gignac, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees Jackson, et al.

Jay Russell (argued), Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Kevin A. Voth , Martine D. Agostino , and Maureen Onyeagbako , Deputy Attorneys General; Jon S. Allin and Thomas S. Patterson , Supervising Attorneys General; Jonathan L. Wolff , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Kristina Doan Gruenberg and Susan E. Coleman , Burke Williams & Sorensen LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees Igbinosa and Winslow.

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and Rosanna Malouf Peterson, District Judge.


OPINION

Inmates in several California state prisons were exposed to a heightened risk of getting Valley Fever, so they sued state officials for money damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The inmates claim that exposing them to a heightened risk of getting Valley Fever was cruel and unusual punishment in...

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