United States Ninth Circuit

Prison officials are entitled to qualified immunity for inmates' claims of excessive force arising from corrections officers' use of pepper spray, but a claim of deliberate indifference to medical needs may proceed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2002
• Decided 08/06/2002
• Published 08/06/2002

Judges

• Before SNEED, HUG, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Bryce Kenny,Russell J. Clanton and Associates, Arcata, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Linda Pancho, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants.