United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's order certifying a class and a subclass of inmates in Arizona's prison system who alleged that they were subjected to systemic Eighth Amendment violations, is affirmed, where the district court acted well within its broad discretion in concluding that the putative class of inmates challenging Arizona Department of Corrections' health care policies and practices, and the subclass of inmates challenging the isolation unit policies and practices, satisfied the requirements for class certification set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/05/2014
• Published 06/05/2014

Judges

• REINHARDT

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel