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Lee Max Barnett v. Helen Centoni, Correctional Officer, San Quentin State Prison S. Donahue, Correctional Officer, San Quentin State Prison

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Good law
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
31 F.3d 813
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
142 of 142
Citing cases (total)
1,314
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Lee Max Barnett v. Helen Centoni remains good law after all 142 flagged citations were read; none adversely treated it. The reviewed opinions continued to apply Barnett's rules governing de novo review, construction of pleadings, prisoner-retaliation claims, legitimate penological goals, contact visitation, and California's adequate postdeprivation remedy for unauthorized property losses.
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Nearby “abrogated” and “overruled” language instead concerned Scheuer v. Rhodes, Parratt v. Taylor, or Toussaint v. McCarthy.

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1,314 later cases cite Lee Max Barnett v. Helen Centoni, Correctional Officer, San Quentin State Prison S. Donahue, Correctional Officer, San Quentin State Prison; 142 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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