United States Ninth Circuit

Prisoner's claim that prison violated his constitutional rights by refusing to allow him to provide his wife with a sperm sample, so that she may be artificially inseminated, was properly dismissed; a prisoner does not have a constitutional right to procreate while incarcerated.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/20/2002
• Decided 05/23/2002
• Published 05/23/2002

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, KOZINSKI, O'SCANNLAIN, RYMER, HAWKINS, TASHIMA, SILVERMAN, GOULD, PAEZ, BERZON, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Teresa L. Zuber, Law Offices of Teresa L. Zuber, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory S. Walston, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellee.