· 5/7/2007
Aaron B. Scruggs v. D. Bruce Jordan
Citations
- 485 F.3d 934
- 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 10790
- 2007 WL 1309416
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “prison disciplinary officials need not permit the presentation of irrelevant or repetitive evidence in order to afford prisoners due process in disciplinary proceedings.”
- “[P]rison disciplinary officials need not permit the presentation of irrelevant *** evidence in order to afford prisoners due process in disciplinary proceedings.”
- formal, adversarial process of Wolff required for inmate subjected to loss of good time as well as segregation
- no right to call live witnesses or view surveillance video
- \Prisoners do maintain due process rights.\
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Posner, Kanne, Rovner
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