Rimmer-Bey v. Brown

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, a prisoner in the Michigan state prison system, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various officials within the Michigan Department of Corrections (“MDOC”), alleging that they violated his procedural due process rights by placing him in administrative segregation without a formal reclassification hearing and violated his substantive due process rights by failing to grant him meaningful reviews of his classification status thereafter. After a trial before a magistrate judge, a judgment was returned in favor of all defendants. The plaintiff filed a…