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ASHKER v. NEWSOM

No. 18-16427.

968 F.3d 939 (2020)

Todd Lewis ASHKER; Danny Troxell; George Ruiz; Jeffrey Anthony Franklin; George Franco; Gabriel Ralph Reyes; Richard K. Johnson; Paul A. Redd, Jr.; Luis Esquivel; Ronnie N. Dewberry, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gavin NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California; Matthew Cate; Anthony Chaus, Chief, Office of Correctional Safety, CDCR; Greg Lewis, Warden, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 3, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Fisher (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Jay C. Russell , Adriano Hrvatin , and Neah Huynh , Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Monica Anderson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Samuel Miller (argued), Jules Lobel , and Rachel Meeropol , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; Carmen E. Bremer , Bremer Law Group PLLC, Seattle, Washington; Anne Cappella , Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, California; Charles F.A. Carbone , Law Offices of Charles Carbone, San Francisco, California; Anne Butterfield Weills , Siegel Yee & Brunner, Oakland, California; Matthew Strugar , Law Office of Matthew Strugar, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

David C. Fathi , Amy Fettig , and Jennifer Wedekind , ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, D.C.; Danielle C. Jefferis and Nicole B. Godfrey , Student Law Office —Civil Rights Clinic, University of Denver College of Law, Denver, Colorado; Daniel M. Greenfield , Roderick & Solange Macarthur Justice Center, Chicago, Illinois; David Loy , ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties, San Diego, California; for Amici Curiae Former Corrections Officials.

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Ryan D. Nelson, Circuit Judges, and James S. Gwin, District Judge.

OPINION

This appeal stems from a prison conditions civil rights class action settlement. Earlier, the Defendant California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ("California") housed the Plaintiff Prisoners (the "Prisoners") in solitary confinement based only upon...

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