Law students at the University of California, Davis, will argue two cases before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco Monday, April 9, and Tuesday, April 10. One case is a class action lawsuit on behalf of Muslim inmates seeking to participate in a weekly religious service and the other, a case over the denial of a transsexual's hormone treatments. On Tuesday, second-year law students Shelley Bryant and Shanée Williams will argue two consolidated appeals in the class action, Mayweathers vs. Terhune, et al. The Civil Rights Clinic at the School of Law represents the plaintiffs -- all current and future Muslim inmates at California State Prison-Solano. The defendants, including the director of the California Department of Corrections and the warden of the Solano prison, have appealed two preliminary injunctions allowing the inmates to leave their work and class assignments for about an hour on Fridays to attend Jumu'ah, a special religious service. On Monday, second-year law student Rosa Cabrera will argue an appeal in the case of Allard vs. Gomez, et al. The clinic represents the plaintiff who is appealing the order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California denying his motion for summary judgment and the granting of the defendants' motion for summary judgment. Transsexual James Allard, an inmate of the Solano prison at the time, alleges that the defendants -- the corrections department, its doctors and its officials -- were deliberately indifferent to his medical need by denying him the female hormone therapy recommended by his treating physicians at the prison. Both cases will be argued in hearings beginning at 9 a.m. in courtroom one of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 95 Seventh St. Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ask the legal clinic to take the cases of indigent prisoners in which there is the greatest concern for the well-being of the inmate or a major question of law at issue. Under the supervision of the clinic's staff attorney, Susan Christian, second- and third-year law students work on the cases, sometimes continuing through the appellate level.