Hurd v. District of Columbia

Michael D. Hurd,; Jr.’s complaint for damages, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleged that the District of Columbia deprived him of due process in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution when he was reimprisoned after District authorities discovered that he had been prematurely released from prison. Hurd brought this action after he finished seeing the balance of his original sentence.

One of the problems with Hurd’s § 1983 complaint, and the only one I need address, is that before- he filed this action in federal court he brought the same claims of procedural and substantive due…