Ferrell v. Huffman

MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

This action presents to the Court the issue of what standards, in the wake of Landman v. Royster, 333 F.Supp. 621 (E.D.Va.1971), are to be employed in adjudging claims filed by Virginia prisoners to redress administrative decisions of Institutional Classification Committees (hereinafter, “ICC”’s). The plaintiff, a Virginia state prisoner at the State Farm, brings this action to redress an allegedly arbitrary and capricious determination by the Classification Committee of his prison security status. Jurisdiction is invoked pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The…