Brown v. Plata

U. S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the January 2010 order by a panel of three federal judges that requires California to lower its prison population by 27% (currently 33,500 inmates), within two years to remedy overcrowding, which was determined to violate inmates” constitutional rights. CJLF had joined the case to argue that the release order was invalid because the selection of three notorious pro-defendant judges as panel members by the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit guaranteed the result, and that once on the panel, the judges manipulated the process to prevent any objective review of the inmates” claims. [CJLF brief in PDF.]