Fitzwater v. Department of Highways

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• determining daily interaction with prison staff was, in part, sufficient to overcome due process claim of significant and atypical hardship
• \[T]ransfer of an inmate to less amenable and more restrictive quarters for nonpunitive reasons is well within the terms of confinement ordinarily contemplated by a prison sentence\ [quotation omitted]
• “[T]he circuit courts are split on which baseline comparison” — i.e., whether conditions, duration or restrictions of confinement are atypical as compared with other inmates “in the same segregation” 22 or the “general prison population” — “to use.”

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