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A consent decree entered into by various California state officials and a class, including all inmates at the California Medical Facility (“CMF”) in Vacaville, California, gives rise to these three separate appeals and a cross-appeal. The inmates brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge deficient medical and psychiatric care, indecent confinement conditions, and treatment and segregation of HIV-positive inmates at the CMF — Main and Northern Reception Center. The consent decree included a provision for payment of attorneys’ fees.

In No. 93-15363, the defendants-appellants challenge the district court’s interpretation of the consent decree, so far as defendants are required to provide additional correctional staff at CMF. In No. 93-16136, the defendants-appellants challenge the district court’s order enjoining them from denying food service positions to HIV-positive inmates. In No. 91-16702, the defendants-appellants appeal the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees to the plaintiffs. In- No. 91-16780, the plaintiffs cross-appeal contending that additional attorneys’ fees are due.

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FACTS

Plaintiffs brought this action to challenge conditions at the CMF — Main…