United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a civil detainee awaiting adjudication is entitled to conditions of confinement that are not punitive.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2004
• Decided 12/27/2004
• Published 12/27/2004

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before B. FLETCHER, NOONAN, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Grace K. Won and Darrell A. Fruth, Farella Braun + Martel LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Melton, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellees.   With him on the briefs was Terence J. Cassidy.