Legal Opinion
Onofre T. Serrano v. S.W. Francis
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 26, 2003No. 01-57036PublishedCited by 639 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
Onofre Tommy Serrano, a wheelchair-bound black 1 prison inmate, appeals the district court’s adverse decisions in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that prison officials denied him due process and equal protection by refusing to allow him to present live witness testimony during a prison disciplinary hearing. First, we must decide whether the district court erred in dismissing Serrano’s due process claim without leave to amend when it held that he could not, as a matter of law, plead a protected liberty interest — namely, the freedom from administrative…
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