Adree Edmo v. Corizon, Inc.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ADREE EDMO, AKA Mason Edmo, No. 22-35876

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 1:17-cv-00151- v. BLW

CORIZON, INC.; SCOTT ELIASON;

IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF OPINION

CORRECTION; HENRY ATENCIO;

JEFF ZUMDA; HOWARD KEITH

YORDY; RICHARD CRAIG; RONA

SIEGERT,

Defendants-Appellants,

and

MURRAY YOUNG; CATHERINE

WHINNERY,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho B. Lynn Winmill, Chief District Judge, Presiding EDMO V. CORIZON, INC.

Argued and Submitted March 5, 2024 Seattle, Washington

Filed April 5, 2024

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Robert S. Lasnik,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Gould

SUMMARY**

Prisoner Civil Rights/Attorneys’ Fees

The panel reversed in part, affirmed in part, and vacated in part the district court’s award of $2,586,048.80 in attorneys’ fees to plaintiff Adree Edmo, and remanded, in an action in which Edmo obtained an injunction requiring defendants the State of Idaho, private prison company…