AHLMAN v. BARNES

Nos. 20-55568, 20-55668.

20 F.4th 489 (2021)

Melissa AHLMAN; Daniel Kauwe; Michael Seif; Javier Esparza; Pedro Bonilla; Cynthia Campbell; Monique Castillo; Mark Trace; Cecibel Caridad Ortiz; Don Wagner, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Don BARNES, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Orange County, California; County of Orange, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 10, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kayla N. Watson (argued), Deputy County Counsel; D. Kevin Dunn (argued) and Rebecca S. Leeds , Senior Deputies County Counsel; Laura D. Knapp , Supervising Deputy County Counsel; Leon J. Page , County Counsel; Office of the County Counsel, Santa Ana, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Stacey Grigsby (argued) and Amia Trigg , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mitchell Kamin and Aaron Lewis , Covington & Burling LLP, Los Angeles, California; Paul Hoffman , Schonbrun Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, Hermosa Beach, California; John Washington , Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes LLP, Los Angeles, California; Cassandra Stubbs , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Durham, North Carolina; Carl Takei , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Zoe Brennan-Krohn , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Peter Eliasberg , American Civil Liberties Fund of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: SANDRA S. IKUTA, MARK J. BENNETT, and RYAN D. NELSON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Several inmates in Orange County jails brought § 1983 and other federal claims against the County and the sheriff for alleged failure to combat COVID-19. The district court granted Plaintiffs' provisional class certification and issued a preliminary injunction under the Prison Litigation Reform Act...

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