Legal Opinion
Woods v. Edwards
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 11, 1995No. 94-30433PublishedCited by 270 opinions
1Per curiam
Claude Woods, incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, brought this § 1983 action alleging that his current status at the prison in “extended lockdown”, 1 a form of disciplinary isolation, was motivated by racial animus or was in retaliation for his resorting to the courts for relief. Further, Woods contended that his continued confinement was wrongful, that some conditions of his confinement were unconstitutional, and that his due process rights were violated. The district court concluded that the plaintiffs claims lacked sufficient eviden-tiary support and granted the…
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