Joseph Toussaint, Plaintiffs/appellees/cross-Appellants v. Daniel McCarthy Defendants/appellants/cross-Appellees

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• holding that 12 denial of contact visitation is not infliction of pain and does not violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding that that prison officials must engage in 2 some sort of periodic review of the confinement of prisoners held in 3 administrative segregation
• concluding the argument that \the Court's silence indicates approval\ or disapproval \seriously misapprehends the nature of judicial opinion\
• holding due process does not require “a written decision describing the reasons for placing [a] prisoner in administrative segregation”
• noting that a court should look to the record to examine whether there is “‘some evidence’ in support of each challenged” disciplinary sanction
• finding that administrative segregation is the type of confinement that should 2 be reasonably anticipated by inmates at some point in their incarceration

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