Ramirez v. Galaza

334 F.3d 850 Luis RAMIREZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. George M. GALAZA, Warden; James Gomez, Director of CDC; R. McEnroe, Lieutenant; O. Pena, Chief Deputy Warden; Adrian Chacon, Medical Assistant; Garth Embree, Physician; J. Batchelor, Examiner; Linda L. Melching, Chief Inmate Appeals Branch, Defendants-Appellees. No. 00-15994. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 6, 2002. Filed June 27, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Peter Huang, McDermott, Will & Emery, Palo Alto, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant. Thomas S. Patterson, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California; Robert E. Coyle, Chief Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-06282-REC/DLB. Before COWEN, * HAWKINS and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges. OPINION COWEN, Circuit Judge: 1 California state prisoner Luis Ramirez brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of the Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ramirez's complaint alleged that his constitutional rights were violated by the procedures utilized in a prison…