Hillery v. Rushen

720 F.2d 1132 Booker T. HILLERY, Jr., J.R. Butts, David Middleton, Glenn Bailey, Plaintiffs- Appellees, v. Ruth L. RUSHEN, Director of Corrections, State of California; Samuel D. Yockey, Deputy Director of Corrections; R.L. Pulley, Warden, California State Prison, San Quentin, California, and J.A. Ingram, Defendants-Appellants. No. 82-4609. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 14, 1983. Decided Nov. 25, 1983. Jack W. Londen, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees. Kenneth C. Young, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before TANG and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, * District Judge. REINHARDT, Circuit Judge: 1 California prison officials appeal from the district court's issuance of a permanent injunction prohibiting them from enforcing revisions of Chapter 4600 of the Department of Correction's Administrative Manual ("Chapter 4600"). Chapter 4600 governs the types and amounts of personal property prison inmates in California are allowed to possess. Appellants revised Chapter 4600 without following the notice,…