Legal Opinion
Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 15, 1989No. 87-1815PublishedCited by 3,010 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
In this case we consider whether Kentucky prison regulations give state inmates, for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment, a liberty interest in receiving certain visitors.
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In September 1976, Kentucky inmates brought a federal class action under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 challenging conditions of confinement in the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddy-ville. Other cases, one of them relating to the Kentucky State Reformatory at La Grange, were consolidated with the one concerning the penitentiary. The litigation was settled by a consent decree dated 28 May 1980, and supplemented 22 July 1980,…
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