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Brown v. Plata, No. 13A57 (U.S. Supreme Court) (570 U.S. 938; 134 S.Ct. 1) (August 2, 2013) (Per Curiam)

For the second time in past two years, the Supreme Court has intervened in the California’s decades’ long prison overcrowding crisis. Two years ago in its landmark decision in Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. ___. 131 S.Ct. 1910 (21011) (“Plata I”) (P&J, 05/30/11), a 5-4 majority affirmed a district court's ...

 

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