Legal Opinion
Huey B. Wright v. Harold Smith and Thomas A. Coughlin, III
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 6, 1994No. 607, Docket 93-2415PublishedCited by 1,198 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
The primary question on this appeal is whether an inmate’s extended confinement without a hearing in a correctional facility’s Special Housing Unit (SHU) violates a Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest. Huey B. Wright, formerly an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility, appeals from the June 11, 1993, judgment of the District Court for the Western District of New York (Kenneth R. Fisher, Magistrate Judge) granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing with prejudice Wright’s complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) against defendants Harold Smith,…
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