Federal Savings & Loan Insurance v. Sahni

How courts have described this case

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• denying qualified immunity to a defendant because as a prison official, he must be “charged with the knowledge of relevant decisional law,” and thus, should have been aware of the Second Circuit’s case law that had clearly established the right advanced by the plaintiff
• \[A] plaintiff-inmate armed with nothing more than conclusory allegations of bias and prejudgment should not be able to defeat a well-supported motion for summary judgment\
• “[I]t would be improper for prison officials to decide the disposition of a case before it was heard.”
• “[I]t would be improper for prison officials to decide the disposition of a case before it was heard.”
• “at a minimum, a prisoner is entitled to be confronted with the accusation, informed of the evidence against him . . . and afforded a reasonable opportunity to explain his actions”
• “[A] 14 prisoner is entitled to be . . . informed of the evidence against him . . . .” (quoting Nieves v. 15 Oswald, 477 F.2d 1109, 1113 (2d Cir. 1973)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).