Albers v. Ralston

I respectfully dissent. The Court holds that habeas corpus relief is inappropriate because the petitioners do not allege a constitutional violation and “have no constitutional interest in the classification system sufficient to invoke due process protection.” Ante, at p. 815. Reading the petitioners’ complaint as an attack on their conditions *818of confinement, the Court relies on Willis v. Ciccone, 506 F.2d 1011, 1019 (8th Cir. 1974), for the proposition that a prisoner petition which seeks habeas corpus relief from prison conditions must allege “a substantial infringement of a constitutional…