Kennedy v. Blankenship

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• holding there is no federal constitutional liberty interest in having state officers follow state procedural law
• collecting post-Sandin cases in which deprivations were upheld as not atypical and significant hardships
• there is no federal constitutional liberty interest in having state officers follow state law or having prison officials follow prison regulations
• there is no federal constitutional liberty interest in having state officers follow state law or having prison officials follow prison regulations
• failure to follow policy does not state a claim for relief under § 1983

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).