John Melnik v. James Dzurenda

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding, in the context of a prison disciplinary hearing, that a prisoner had a due process right to access evidence to be used against him
• noting that prison officials may limit a prisoner’s right to access evidence for a disciplinary hearing if they have a “legitimate penological reason” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “If a prisoner must be allowed to present 13 evidence in his defense [under Wolff], it necessarily follows that he must have some right to 14 prepare for that presentation.”
• a prisoner’s right to review evidence for a disciplinary hearing may be constrained by a 1 Insofar as Mays relies on BOP Program Statements, his allegations are not cognizable in a § 2241 petition. See Reeb v. Thomas, 636 F.3d 1224, 1227-28 (9th Cir. 2011
• discussing application of Wolff to disciplinary 5 proceedings

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Cites

46 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Morrissey v. Brewer
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 10,835×
• Mullenix v. Luna
  Supreme Court· 2015-11-09· cited 3,438×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 2,777×
• Wilson v. Layne
  Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 2,678×
• District of Columbia v. Wesby
  Supreme Court· 2018-01-22· cited 2,459×
• Plumhoff v. Rickard
  Supreme Court· 2014-05-27· cited 1,723×
• Damous Nettles v. Randy Grounds
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-07-26· cited 1,123×
• Ashley Hunt Greenwood v. Federal Aviation Administration
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-06-28· cited 961×
• Dougherty v. City of Covina
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-08-16· cited 831×
• Ponte v. Real
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 708×
• John Colwell v. Robert Bannister
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-08-14· cited 652×
• Harold Hall v. City of Los Angeles
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-09-24· cited 546×
• Wood v. Moss
  Supreme Court· 2014-05-27· cited 542×
• United States v. Sineneng-Smith
  Supreme Court· 2020-05-07· cited 483×
• Edward Furnace v. Paul Sullivan
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-01-17· cited 455×
• Clyde Piggie v. Zettie Cotton
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-09-15· cited 355×
• Kenneth McClure Young, II v. Warren Kann and Jane Doe
  Third Circuit· 1991-03-05· cited 246×
• Leeroy B. Bostic, Jr. v. Peter Carlson, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-09-07· cited 206×