Gary v. Hegstrom

831 F.2d 1430 GARY H., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Leo HEGSTROM, J.N. Peet, Richard S. Peterson, Bennett K. Holt, Jr., Leonard Munks, Dale Reeves, Joseph H. Trealeaven, M.D., Verne A. Duncan, and Jesse Fasold, Defendants-Appellants. No. 85-3730. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 9, 1986. Decided Nov. 4, 1987. Loren M. Warboys and Robert Walker, San Francisco, Cal., Michael H. Marcus and Julie McFarland, Portland, Or., for plaintiffs-appellees. Michael D. Reynolds, Salem, Or., for defendants-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before GOODWIN, WALLACE and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge: 1 Ten years ago, after complaints about the management of Oregon's MacLaren facility for adolescent wards of the juvenile court failed to bring about desired reforms, eleven inmates filed a class action. Seven years later, after numerous attempts to settle the case, the district court entered a decree enjoining, on federal constitutional grounds, some eighteen pages of instructions for managing the institution. The state appeals. 2 The case has not become moot even though the original…