Legal Opinion

Lyons v. Russell

District Court, D. Nevada

Decided January 24, 2025No. 3:23-cv-00335Unknown

1Opinion

2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 5 * * * 6 WILLIAM LYONS, Case No. 3:23-cv-00335-MMD-CSD 7 Plaintiff, ORDER v. 8 PERRY RUSSELL, et al., 9 Defendants. 10 11 I. SUMMARY 12 Pro se Plaintiff William Lyons, who is incarcerated at Northern Nevada Correctional 13 Center (“NNCC”), filed this action against NNCC officials and medical personnel1 under 14

42 U.S.C. § 1983

and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), alleging that 15 Defendants violated his civil rights when they detained him and 150 other prisoners on 16 NNCC’s athletic field in excessive heat. (ECF No. 7…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. FalconSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Vernon C. Weygandt v. Donald Look, Superintendent, and the Attorney General for the State of WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
  3. Sammy Lee Terrell v. R.D. Brewer, Warden Jon Morales Christopher C. PhillipsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
  4. Califano v. YamasakiSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  5. Victor Parsons v. Charles RyanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2014

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