Supreme Court· 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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holding that a state statutory framework and the punitive nature of segregation created a liberty interest
holding that moving a prisoner from general population to administrative segregation is a deprivation of liberty that must be accompanied by due process of law
holding that an inmate had no liberty interest in avoiding transfer to a more restrictive facility
holding that the word “shall” in an act of Congress indicates a course of conduct “of an unmistakably mandatory character”
holding that prisoners have no protected liberty interest in being confined at a certain security level
holding that due process requires that a hearing be held within a “reasonable” time after confinement to administrative segregation, and finding that five days “plainly satisfied” this requirement

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

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