RICO v. DUCART

No. 19-15541.

980 F.3d 1292 (2020)

Jorge Andrade RICO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Clark E. DUCART, Warden; F. P. Marulli, Lieutenant at P.B.S.P.; D. Abernathy, Sergeant at P.B.S.P.; C. Parry, P.B.S.P. Official; J. Cuske; Nelson; Garcia; Escamilla; Shaver, Defendants-Appellants, and Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary of CDCR; Michael Stainer; Scott Kernan; Harrington; Kathleen Allison, Warden, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heewon Heidi Seo (argued) and Jeffrey T. Fisher , Deputy Attorneys General; Neah Huynh , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Monica N. Anderson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Kate S. Falkenstien (argued), Reichman Jorgensen LLP, Redwood Shores, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Silver.


OPINION

This civil rights action over prison noise stems from the orders of a federal district court adopting recommendations of its Special Master to implement round-the-clock welfare checks to prevent inmate suicides in California's prison system. For purposes of qualified immunity, this interlocutory appeal requires...

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