Clement v. Gomez

298 F.3d 898 Frank S. CLEMENT; Arturo Chavez; Larry Caballero, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James H. GOMEZ, Director, Department of Corrections; Steven Cambra; M. Pitts-Campbell; G. Perry; T. Frager; G.R. Dunham; L.A. Smith; T. Norton, Defendants-Appellants. No. 01-16088. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 13, 2002. Filed August 6, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED J. Bryce Kenny, Russell J. Clanton and Associates, Arcata, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Linda Pancho, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Martin J. Jenkins, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV 98-01007-MJJ. Before SNEED, HUG, and BERZON, Circuit Judges. OPINION SNEED, Circuit Judge. 1 California state prison warden James Gomez and other prison officials appeal the district court's denial of their motion for summary judgment. Inmates Frank Clement, Arturo Chavez and Larry Caballero sued the officials for violating their Eighth Amendment rights, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . The inmates asserted two claims of cruel and unusual…