Legal Opinion

John Armstrong v. Edmund Brown, Jr.

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided September 26, 2014No. 12-17103PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

For more than two decades, disabled prisoners have been mired in litigation aimed at bringing California’s prison facilities into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the Rehabilitation Act (“RA”), and the U.S. Constitution. In this appeal, Defendants, officials responsible for the state’s corrections system (collectively, the “State”), challenge a 2012 order in which the district court modified the accountability provisions of an earlier injunction ordering the State to take specified steps to ensure that disabled inmates were provided…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Cleveland Board of Education v. LoudermillSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. O'Shea v. LittletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  3. Johnson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  4. Brown v. PlataSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
  5. Armstrong v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001

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