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Meachum Vs. Fano

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 25, 1976

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  9. U.S. 215 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Meachum v. Fano
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  10. U.S. 215 (1976) Meachum v. Fano
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  11. actions that traditionally have been the business of prison administrators, rather than of the federal courts. Wolff v. McDonnell
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  12. setting aside the ordered transfer, declaratory relief, and damages. The District Court understood Wolff v. McDonnell
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  13. person by the State is sufficient to invoke the procedural protections of the Due Process Clause. In Board of Regents v. Roth
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  14. confinement in prison. He retains a variety of important rights that the courts must be alert to protect. See Wolff v. McDonnell
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  15. in substantially more burdensome conditions that he had been experiencing. We are unwilling to go so far. Wolf v. McDonnell
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  16. the State. The touchstone of due process is protection of the individual against arbitrary action of government, Dent v. West
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  17. Id. at 418 U. S. 557 . This is consistent with our approach in other due process cases such as Goss v. Lopez
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  18. Board of Regents v. Roth
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  19. officials. The predicate for invoking the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment as construed and applied in Wolff v. McDonnell
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  20. courts do not. sit to supervise state prisons, the administration of which is of acute interest to the States. Preiser v. Rodriguez
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  21. that, in our view, the motive of prison officials, as such, is not properly a part of the due process calculus. Gomes v. Travisono
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  22. F.2d at 376 n. 2. See also Gomes v. Travisono
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  23. F.2d 1209 (1973). Other Courts of Appeals, including the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, see Montanye v. Haymes
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  24. p. 427 U. S. 236 , have held that minimum procedures must accompany only disciplinary transfers. Aikens v. Lash
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  25. Carroll v. Sielaff
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  26. Ault v. Holmes
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  27. Stone v. Egeler
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  28. F.2d 287 (CA6 1974). See also Bryant v. Hardy
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  29. F.2d 72 (CA4 1973). Still others have indicated that transfers of inmates do not call for due process hearings. Gray v. Creamer
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  30. Hillen v. Director
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  31. Fajeriak v. McGinnis
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  32. of parole has itself not yet been deemed a function to which due process requirements are applicable. See Scott v. Kentucky
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  33. See Ruffin v. Commonwealth
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  34. As we noted in Morales v. Schmidt
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  35. Miller v. Twomey
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  36. Morales v. Schmidt
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  37. In his dissenting opinion in Morrissey v. Brewer
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  38. U.S. Supreme Court Meachum v. Fano
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  39. of the Due Process Clause. In Board of Regents v. Roth
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  40. See Wolff v. McDonnell
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  41. Wolf v. McDonnell
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  42. Dent v. West
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  43. the States. Preiser v. Rodriguez
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  44. Gomes v. Travisono
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  45. Aikens v. Lash
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  46. Bryant v. Hardy
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  47. Gray v. Creamer
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  48. Fajeriak v. McGinnis
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  49. See Scott v. Kentucky
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  50. Miller v. Twomey
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