United States Ninth Circuit

Because any direct challenge to a disciplinary proceeding would be moot due to a former state prisoner's having served the incarceration portion of a sentence and been released on parole, he may maintain a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising from that proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2002
• Decided 12/26/2002
• Published 12/26/2002

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge., Before: LAY,CANBY and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter R. Afrasiabi (argued), Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge LLP, Costa Mesa, California; Brett J. Williamson, Elizabeth Lemond, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randall A. Pinal, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees.