Brown-El v. Delo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that prisoner’s claim that he was denied his Eighth Amendment rights when he was served cold food was frivolous
• when “an inmate is deprived of privileges or placed in a special confinement status in order to punish him for past misconduct, then due process requires some kind of hearing beforehand”
• “We do not quarrel with the prison's need to segregate individual inmates from the general prison population for non- punitive reasons; for example ... where there is a threat to the safety and security of the institution”
• claim that cold food violated constitutional rights was “frivolous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).