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· 2/22/1983

Hewitt v. Helms

Citations

  • 459 U.S. 460
  • 103 S. Ct. 864
  • 74 L. Ed. 2d 675
  • 1983 U.S. LEXIS 3
  • 51 U.S.L.W. 4124

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Hewitt v. Helms — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.

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  • “Liberty interests 10 protected by the Fourteenth Amendment may arise from two sources—the Due Process Clause 11 itself and the laws of the States.”

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Judges: Rehnquist, Burger, White, Powell, O'Connor, Blackmun, Stevens, Brennan, Mar, Marshall

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