Legal Opinion
Garrison S. Johnson v. State of California James H. Gomez, Director, Department of Corrections James Rowland
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 25, 2003No. 01-56436PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether a prison reception center housing policy, which uses race as one factor in assigning a new inmate’s initial cell mate for 60 days, violates the Equal Protection Clause.
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Garrison Johnson is an African-American prisoner in the California Department of Corrections (“CDC”), serving his sentence for murder, robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon. On June 22, 1987, he was received at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California, and since that time has been transferred to a number of different facilities within the CDC. He has…
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