Scott Emerson Felix v. Daniel J. McCarthy Director of the Department of Corrections P.J. Morris J. Campoy Daniel Vasquez Morris, Lt.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Luis S. Lemos, Gregory Max-ie and Paul Ward, prison guards at San Quentin, appeal the district court’s denial of their motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. Scott Felix, a prisoner at San Quentin, brought a civil rights action against the guards alleging that the guards used excessive force against him in March 1985. The guards assert that they are entitled to the defense of qualified immunity because it was not clearly established in March 1985 that the guards’ conduct would violate Felix’s clearly established constitutional rights.…