Legal Opinion
Williams v. Fountain
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 1996No. 93-9282PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
This is a § 1983 action brought by a prisoner, claiming that he was subjected to disciplinary sanctions in violation of his procedural due process rights. We hold that the prison disciplinary proceedings complied with the minimum requirements of due process.
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In August of 1991, Jeffery Jerome Williams, an inmate of the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville, was sanctioned in prison disciplinary proceedings for fighting with another inmate. Williams was charged in a prison disciplinary report (filed by prison official Ronald Fountain) with the “major infraction” 1 of…
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