· 3/30/1979
Frederick Robert Paine v. Ben L. Baker, Supervisor of Records, and the North Carolina Department of Corrections
Citations
- 595 F.2d 197
- 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 15773
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- a prisoner must allege that the information in his file is false in order to state a due process claim for expungement
- independent right to expunction of erroneous data in inmate’s file which is relied upon to a constitutionally significant degree
- as jurisdictional predicate to filing action regarding misinformation in prisoner's record, prisoner must first request authorities to expunge information and give authorities reasonable opportunity to respond
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Judges: Miller, Patent, Hall, Phillips
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