Frankie Greer v. County of San Diego

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FRANKIE GREER, No. 23-55607

Plaintiff, D.C. No. and 3:19-cv-00378-

JO-DEB

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE,

LLC; PRISON LEGAL NEWS;

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO, OPINION

Intervenors-Appellees, v.

COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO,

Defendant-Appellant,

WILLIAM GORE, Sheriff; ALFRED

JOSHUA, M.D.; BARBARA LEE;

MACY GERMONO; FRANCISCO

BRAVO; CHRISTOPHER SIMMS;

MICHAEL CAMPOS,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Jinsook Ohta, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted August 14, 2024 San Francisco, California

Filed February 10, 2025

Before: Susan P. Graber, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Lucy H. Koh, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Graber; Concurrence by Judge Graber; Partial Dissent by Judge Koh

SUMMARY *

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The panel reversed the district court’s order to unseal documents from the County of San Diego’s Critical Incident Review Board (“CIRB”) that had been produced in an underlying civil rights action, and remanded with…