Boutchee v. Grossheim

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff, Frederick Leon Boutchee, appeals the Magistrate Judge’s1 order in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case. Boutchee contends that prison officials and staff members violated his right to due process because they sanctioned him for conduct which was not covered explicitly in prison rules and because the person who issued the violation also determined the sanction. The contested order granted judgment as a matter of law in favor of the defendants. We affirm.

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Frederick Boutchee was an inmate at the Iowa Men’s Reformatory (IMR). In June of 1991, he was enrolled in a…