Legal Opinion
Lira v. Herrera
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 31, 2005No. 02-16325PublishedCited by 757 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Ernesto Lira was for several years placed in administrative segregation, and later in a Special Housing Unit (SHU), because prison officials determined that he was affiliated with a prison gang and posed a threat to prison safety. He filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, protesting that his treatment at California’s Deuel Vocational Institute and Pelican Bay Prison violated due process. The district court granted defendants’ joint motion for summary judgment on the ground that the sole remaining cause of action encompassed both a fully exhausted claim and some…
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