Legal Opinion
Madrid v. Gomez
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 2, 1998No. Nos. 96-17277, 97-16237PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the attorney’s fee-limitations provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 apply to cases which were pending at the time of its enactment.
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This case arose as a prisoner civil-rights class action challenging the conditions of confinement at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. Plaintiffs-Appellees Madrid and others (“prisoners”) alleged a multitude of constitutional violations, including a pattern and practice of excessive force against them, provision of inadequate medical and psychiatric care, and failure to maintain humane…
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