United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment when they denied Plaintiff outdoor exercise during lockdowns, judgment for Plaintiff is reversed, where the lockdowns were reasonable precautions given the violence that had occurred at the prison, and thus Defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/29/2008
• Decided 07/09/2009
• Published 07/09/2009

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:, Before ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, SIDNEY R. THOMAS and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carter White, Supervising Attorney, and Erin Haney, Certified Law Student, U.C. Davis School of Law, King Hall Civil Rights Clinic, Davis, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Christopher J. Becker, Esquire, Jim Sobolewski, James Flynn, Deputy Attorneys General, Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellants.