Husbands v. McClellan

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• dismissing plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment due process claim where plaintiff failed to show challenged SHU conditions met Sandin’s requirements for relief under the Fourteenth Amendment
• finding no liberty interest deprivation where the plaintiff served 180 days in SHU under numerous conditions of confinement that were more restrictive than those in general population
• plaintiffs six month confinement in SHU not atypical and significant duration, as plaintiff was serving an indeterminate sentence of six months to life
• “[C]onfinement in SHU for six months, standing alone, does not present the type of atypical and significant deprivation in which a state may conceivably create a liberty interest.”
• 92 days in SHU not an atypical significant hardship implicating a protected liberty interest
• “The temporary loss of the various privileges alleged in this case—i.e., telephone, package, commissary, and recreation privileges—does not represent the type of deprivation which could reasonably be viewed as imposing an atypical and significant hardship on an inmate.”’

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