United States Ninth Circuit

The procedure used by a magistrate judge did not give a pro se prisoner litigant fair notice of summary judgment proceedings, in a challenge to the California Department of Corrections' hair length regulations. Dismissal of an equal protection claim is reversed where defendants failed to prove non-exhaustion under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2001
• Decided 01/02/2003
• Published 01/02/2003

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.