Cardenas-Ornelas

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LUIS CARDENAS-ORNELAS, No. 24-6755 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 2:21-cv-00030-

ART-MDC

v.

CALVIN JOHNSON; HAROLD

WICKHAM; CHARLES DANIELS; OPINION

GARY PICCININI; TIMOTHY

STRUCK; ROBERT OWENS;

JESSIE BRIGHTWELL; MANUEL

PORTILLO; TIMOTHY JOHNSON,

Defendants - Appellants,

and

J. ALCOCK, JULIO CALDERIN,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Anne R. Traum, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted October 9, 2025 Las Vegas, Nevada Filed January 29, 2026 CARDENAS-ORNELAS V. JOHNSON

Before: Mark J. Bennett, Gabriel P. Sanchez, and Holly A. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bennett

SUMMARY *

Qualified Immunity

The panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s denial, on summary judgment, of qualified immunity to Warden Calvin Johnson in an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law by Luis Cardenas-Ornelas, a Nevada state prisoner, alleging constitutional violations in connection with his quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cardenas-Ornelas alleged…