United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal of summary judgment in favor of prison, because the district court did not meet the requirements of the fair notice doctrine with respect to pro se litigants, judgment against Rastafarian prisoner on his First Amendment claim, and the dismissal of his equal protection claim, reversed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2001
• Decided 02/12/2002
• Published 02/12/2002

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before BRIGHT,B. FLETCHER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Grace K. Won,Farella Braun & Martel LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Williams, Paul A. Bernardino, Deputy Attorneys General, Sacramento, California, for the defendants-appellees.