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· 11/28/2005

Michelle Bazzetta v. Kenneth McGinnis Director of Michigan Department of Corrections Michigan Department of Corrections

Citations

  • 430 F.3d 795
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 25600
  • 2005 WL 3315296

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that a ban on virtually all visitation for prisoners who have been found guilty of two or more major misconduct substance abuse charges does not rise to a due process violation
  • finding that there is no “implicit due process right to prison visitation.”
  • finding no due process right to prison visitation because it is consistent with the status of being incarcerated
  • “We know of no circuit that has found an implicit due process right to prison visitation.”
  • “In evaluating a claimed liberty interest by prison inmates, courts are mindful that imprisonment necessarily ‘carries with it the circumscription or loss of many significant rights.’”
  • “In evaluating a claimed liberty interest by prison inmates, courts are mindful that imprisonment necessarily ‘carries with it the circumscription or loss of many significant rights.’”

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Judges: Clay, Sutton, Oberdorfer

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