Toussaint v. Yockey

722 F.2d 1490 Joseph TOUSSAINT, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Samuel YOCKEY, Acting Director of Corrections, Reginald Pulley, Warden, San Quentin Prison; Robert Rees, Superintendent, Deuel Vocational Institution, Alan Stagner, Superintendent, Correctional Training Facility (Soledad), Defendants-Appellants. Nos. 83-1678, 83-1775. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 14, 1983. Decided Jan. 5, 1984. Sanford Jay Rosen, Rosen & Remcho, San Francisco, Cal., James Smith, Smith, Snedeker & Comiskey, Sacramento, Cal., Bernard Zimmerman, Sarah Flanagan, Mark Chavez, Andrea Resnick, Sidney M. Wolinsky, Morris J. Baller, David Lew, San Francisco, Cal., Michael Satris, San Quentin, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees. William D. Stein, Karl Mayer, John Van de Kamp, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before TRASK, and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON * , District Judge. CANBY, Circuit Judge: 1 Plaintiffs are a class of approximately 2,000 prisoners confined in administrative segregation in four California State Prisons: Deuel Vocational Institution,…