McQUILLION v. SCHWARZENEGGER

369 F.3d 1091 Carl D. McQUILLION; Willie B. Thomas; Michael Milan; Robert L. Polete; Minh Nguyen; Lloyd Garcia; Frank Juan Rivera; Raymond Rogers; Keith E. Wiggins; Dennis E. Riney; Alfredo Hernandez Cruz; Jessie L. Davis; Roger Brown; Sebastian Llorente; Thomas Wells; Randall Cowans; Zachary Lilliard; Donald Ray Washington, # C-12677, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER; * Pete Wilson; Bill Lockyer, Attorney General; Dan Lungren; Robert Presley; Joe Sandoval; James W. Nielsen, Chairman; John W. Gillis; Ted Rich; Lewis Chartrand, Defendants-Appellees. No. 01-16037. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted October 9, 2003. Filed May 19, 2004. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Steve M. Defilippis, Picone & Defilippis, San Jose, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Michael J. Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California; Gregory G. Hollows, Magistrate Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-02060-GGH. Before CUDAHY, ** GOODWIN, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge. 1 Carl McQuillion ("McQuillion") and his co-plaintiffs…