United States Ninth Circuit

A prison reception center housing policy that uses race as a factor in assigning a new inmate's initial cell mate for 60 days did not violate the Equal Protection Clause, as the policy is reasonably related to the prison's concern for racial violence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/10/2002
• Decided 02/25/2003
• Published 02/25/2003

Judges

• Before HUG, JR., BRUNETTI and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Sara Turner, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, argued the cause for the defendants-appellants and filed a brief;  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Paul D. Gifford, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Allen R. Crown, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, were on the brief., Tanya Forsheit, Proskauer Rose, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for the plaintiff-appellee;  Bert H. Deixler, Lois D. Thompson, Aaron P. Allan, Proskauer Rose, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, filed briefs.