Delbert Kaahanui Wakinekona v. Antone Olim, Edith M. Wilhelm, John Smythe, Winton Leong and Edwin Shimoda

The issue is not whether Hawaii’s prison authorities should transfer state prisoners without certain formalities,1 but whether the federal constitution compels the state officers to follow to the letter those local regulations that provide inmates with an “impartial program committee” hearing if a change in prison classification results “in a grievous loss.” Because I can find no federal constitutionally-protected interest in having the state follow its own rules in this case, I would affirm the district court’s dismissal of this prisoner’s § 1983 challenge.

*713Meachum v. Fano, 427 U.S. 215, 224,…