Robert Ryan Snyder v. California

• After the Plata ruling, California's legislature lowered its prison population by enacting Proposition(s): 36, 47 and 57. Should the resultant extra living space be prioritized for those prisoners who are serving Life or have already been incarcerated for a decade or decades? [Key Question] • Should California's DOC still be allowed to punish its prisoners—using emergency Overcrowding regulation 15 CCR § 3269(h)— for a good faith cell assignment refusal, now that the Plata ruling created more space/flexibility hence ending the emergency? [Legal] • Were the cases supporting denial applied by California’s courts, an example of clear Legal Error? [Legal] • Were the misrepresented procedural rulings, issued by the lower courts done deliberately or inadvertently? [Mixed] • Did California Prison system's rulemaking authority deliberately obfuscate their emergency Overcrowding—Housing Regulations to Inter Alia engineer a vanguard to any potential constitutional attacks towards the reasonableness of the act’s nature and purpose/means and ends? [Mixed]