Morales v. Hickman

438 F.3d 926 Michael Angelo MORALES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Roderick Q. HICKMAN, Warden, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections; Steven W. Ornoski, Acting Warden, for the California State Prison at San Quentin, Defendants-Appellees. No. 06-99002. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. February 19, 2006. David A. Senior, McBreen & Senior, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellant. Dane R. Gillette, Senior Assistant Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Jeremy Fogel, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. Nos. CV-06-00926-JF, CV-06-00219-JF. Before KLEINFELD, McKEOWN and FISHER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. 1 Michael Angelo Morales ("Morales") is a California death row inmate scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on February 21, 2006 at 12:01 a.m. He brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in the United States District Court seeking to enjoin the State from executing him by lethal injection under the procedures set forth in San Quentin Operational Procedure No. 770 ("Protocol No. 770"). Specifically, Morales contended that a…