ASHKER v. NEWSOM

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Fisher (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Adriano Hrvatin and Neah Huynh , Supervising Attorneys General; Monica N. Anderson , Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Jules Lobel (argued), Rachel Meeropol , and Samuel Miller , 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/Cross-Appellants.

Paula Mitchell , The Project for the Innocent at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California; Alexis Agathocleous , The Innocence Project Inc., New York, New York; Linda Starr , The Northern California Innocence Project, Santa Clara, California; Alexander Simpson , The California Innocence Project, San Diego, California;

Donald Specter , Margot Mendelson , and Patrick Booth , Prison Law Office, Berkeley, California, for Amici Curiae Former Corrections Officials.

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