Brown v. Oregon Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an inmate who spent twenty-seven months in solitary confinement had a due process liberty interest in avoiding further solitary confinement
• holding that solitary 9 confinement for 27 months “without meaningful review” created a liberty interest
• holding that solitary confinement for a fixed and irreducible twenty-seven month period created a liberty interest
• holding that administrative segregation “implicate[s] a protected liberty interest giving rise to procedural due process protections”
• holding that a twenty-seven-month 21 term in solitary confinement constitutes an atypical and significant hardship because of the 22 extreme “duration of [the plaintiff’s] confinement”
• concluding a protected liberty interest existed where two-year term of detention in solitary confinement was imposed on a prisoner as a sanction for misconduct

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