United States Ninth Circuit

In an action claiming that defendants violated plaintiff's constitutional right to privacy by allowing psychologists to look at his records and to communicate their opinions and supporting data to the district attorney's office regarding plaintiff's civil commitment, the dismissal of the action is affirmed where prisoners do not have a constitutionally protected expectation of privacy in prison treatment records when the state has a legitimate penological interest in access to them.

Appellate Information

• Argued 09/10/2008
• Decided 06/30/2010
• Published 06/30/2010

Judges

• Andrew J. Kleinfeld

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric D. Bates, Jeffrey M. Hayes