United States Ninth Circuit

Disabled prisoners who did not receive accommodations at parole hearings have standing to assert claims on behalf of other disabled prisoners when prison policy merely allows for their accommodation at future hearings rather than requiring accommodations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/12/2001
• Decided 11/28/2001
• Published 11/28/2001

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, TASHIMA, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James M. Humes, California Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellants., Donald H. Specter, San Quentin, California;  Michael W. Bien, San Francisco, California;  Warren E. George, San Francisco, California;  Sara Norman, Prison Law Office, San Quentin, California;  Caroline N. Mitchell, Pillsbury Winthrop, San Francisco, California; and William Fernholtz, Rosen, Bien & Asaro, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.