Brown v. Evatt

How courts have described this case

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• explaining \[n]either the state statutes which create and define the powers of the SCDC nor SCDC's operational classification regulations create the required liberty interest\ in one's security classification
• inmate has no liberty interest in a particular custody status as long as the challenged conditions or degree of confinement are within the sentence imposed and are not otherwise violative of the Constitution
• inmate has no liberty interest in a particular custody status as long as the challenged conditions or degree of confinement are within the sentence imposed and are not otherwise violative of the Constitution
• \[T]he security and custody classification of state prison inmates is a matter for state prison official discretion whose exercise is not subject to federal procedural due process constraints.\
• § 1983 cause of action fails where no constitutional deprivation
• affirming dismissal when defendant was not served with a summons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).