Jay Lee Gates John Ronald Bertram v. Ron Shinn

82 F.3d 422 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Jay Lee GATES; John Ronald Bertram, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ron SHINN, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Nos. 95-15402, 95-15403. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Feb. 14, 1996. Decided April 8, 1996. Before: SCHROEDER, D.W. NELSON, and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 These appeals once again present our court with disputes over attorneys' fees awarded pursuant to the consent decree in the litigation concerning prison conditions at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California. Both appeals follow our decision in Gates v. Deukmejian, 987 F.2d 1392 (9th Cir.1992), where we remanded the district court's fee order for limited purposes. 3 In one appeal, 95-15403, the defendants-appellants protest the district court's award of fees to cover plaintiffs-appellees' ongoing monitoring and enforcement of the consent decree. The appeal raises four issues. First,…