Legal Opinion
Toussaint v. Yockey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 5, 1984No. Nos. 83-1678, 83-1775PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs are a class of approximately 2,000 prisoners confined in administrative segregation in four California State Prisons: Deuel Vocational Institution, Folsom Prison, San Quentin Prison, and Soledad Correctional Training Facility. Defendants are the wardens of the four prisons and the California Director of Corrections. Plaintiffs sought relief on two claims. In Wright v. Enomoto, 462 F.Supp. 397 (N.D.Cal.1976), aff’d, 434 U.S. 1052, 98 S.Ct. 1223, 55 L.Ed.2d 756 (1978) (“ Wright F), a three-judge panel convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2281, now repealed, granted…
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3Cited by62 opinions
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