Allen v. Cuomo

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that, while “[a]n inmate subject to a disciplinary hearing is entitled to an impartial hearing officer” that officer “need not come from outside the prison”
• finding no constitutional problem with the lack of a hardship waiver for disciplinary surcharges for inmates found guilty of violating prison rules
• “It is well recognized that prison disciplinary hearing officers are not held to the same standard of neutrality as adjudicators in other contexts.” (citations omitted)
• “A defendant moving for summary judgment must prevail if the plaintiff fails to come forward with enough evidence to create a genuine factual issue to be tried with respect to an element essential to its case.”
• “Without statutory or contractual authority, there is no property interest in prompt payment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).