United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff-inmate's section 1983 suit, alleging Eighth Amendment rights violations, is reversed where he properly alleged facts that raised an inference that prison officials knew of a risk to plaintiff and failed to take reasonable measures to abate it.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/2004
• Decided 06/30/2005
• Published 06/30/2005

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, PREGERSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel L. Alexander, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barbara C. Spiegel, Deputy Attorney General, State of California, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.