Eighth Circuit· 7/8/1993

Buckley v. Barlow

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997 F.2d 494
1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 16919

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holding that the prison grievance process does not create a liberty interest requiring due process protection under the Fourteenth Amendment
recognizing that a prison grievance procedure “does not confer any substantive right upon the inmates”
concluding that Plaintiff “failed to state a claim because no constitutional right was violated by the defendants’ failure . . . to process [Plaintiff’s] grievances”
holding that a prison grievance procedure is not a substantive right and “does not give rise to a protected liberty interest requiring the procedural protections envisioned by the fourteenth amendment”
holding that a refusal to process grievances alone did not state a constitutional deprivation
holding that inmates have no liberty interest in the processing of their grievances, such as would support § 1983 claim for prison officials’ failure to pick up inmate’s completed grievance forms or investigate inmate’s grievances

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