Coleman

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RALPH COLEMAN; PETER No. 24-4023

COCKCROFT; ERNESTO

D.C. No.

VENEGAS; JULIO GARZA,

2:90-cv-00520-

KJM-DB

Plaintiffs - Appellees,

v. OPINION

GAVIN NEWSOM; JEFF

MACOMBER; JOE

STEPHENSHAW; STEPHANIE

CLENDENIN; AMAR MEHTA;

DIANA TOCHE,

Defendants – Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Kimberly J. Mueller, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 6, 2024 San Francisco, California

Filed March 19, 2025 Before: A. WALLACE TASHIMA, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

SUMMARY **

Prisoner Civil Rights

In an ongoing class action initiated in 1990 by a group of California state prisoners alleging that the State of California violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide constitutionally adequate mental health care in its prisons, the panel affirmed the district court’s order holding the State in civil contempt, vacated the district court’s imposition of fines to the extent they exceeded the…