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Ninth Circuit· 10/3/1980

Hayward v. Procunier

Citations

  • 629 F.2d 599
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 13442

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  • holding that prisoners had no due process right to a hearing prior to emergency lockdown at prison that lasted five months
  • holding five-month lockdown did not violate Due Process Clause or Eighth Amendment
  • noting, in the context of an Eighth Amendment analysis, that decisions to maintain or ease restrictions during a lock-down “are delicate ones, and those charged with them must be given reasonable leeway”
  • no Eighth Amendment violation where prison 10 officials instituted month-long deprivation of outdoor exercise 11 privileges during prison lockdown
  • extended lockdown five-month lockdown causing a complete deprivation of outdoor exercise in response to a genuine emergency did not satisfy the objective element of the Eighth Amendment analysis
  • no due process right to a hearing in connection with a five-month lockdown

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