Legal Opinion

Colon v. Howard

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided June 9, 2000No. Docket No. 97-2206PublishedCited by 167 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Judge JOHN M. WALKER, JR. and Judge SACK concur with separate opinions.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is one in a series of cases in which district courts in this Circuit have rejected a prisoner’s claim that he was confined in a segregated housing unit (“SHU”) after a hearing that lacked procedural due process. The primary issue in such cases is whether the confinement imposes an “atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary *229incidents of prison life,” Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 484, 115 S.Ct. 2293, 132 L.Ed.2d 418 (1995).

Armando Colon, a New York…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Sandin v. ConnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  2. Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  3. County of Riverside v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. Colon v. CoughlinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
  5. Muniz v. HoffmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1975

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3Cited by167 opinions

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  3. Kenneth Gaston v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Donald Selsky Lt. Grant Lebaron, Lt. Hans Walker Frank Irvin Edward Dann John Doe, Confidential InformantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
  4. Anthony Palmer v. Paul Richards, Ronald GossCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2004
  5. Ernest Porter v. Pennsylvania Department of CorCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2020

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