Legal Opinion

Millard L. Swenson v. Myrna Trickey Larry Trickey Captain Fred Arflack

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 17, 1993No. 92-2451PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Millard L. Swenson, a Missouri inmate serving a 620-year sentence, alleges that prison officials violated his due process rights when they placed him in administrative segregation for fifteen days without a hearing. Swenson appeals the district court’s 1 judgment dismissing his complaint on qualified immunity grounds. We affirm.

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On February 8, 1986, after serving eleven years of his sentence, Swenson was transferred from another Missouri prison to the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center (“MECC”) and immediately placed in administrative…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Hewitt v. HelmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  4. Hunter v. BryantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  5. Kentucky Department of Corrections v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1989

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3Cited by45 opinions

  1. David A. Duffy v. Charles R. Wolle Harold D. Vietor Ronald Longstaff, Sued as Ronald E. LongstaffCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
  2. Matter of Personal Restraint of CashawWashington Supreme Court · 1994
  3. Guatam Batra Michael Resch Nisar Shaikh v. Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Graham B. Spanier Stanley R. LibertyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
  4. Ronald Dean Brown v. Crispus C. Nix John Henry John Emmet Paul Hedgepath Charles Harper Paul Grossheim Hal FarrierCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
  5. Kennedy v. BlankenshipCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996

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