Phillips v. Norris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inmates do not have a federal constitutional liberty interest in having prison officials follow state law or prison regulations
• concluding that an equal protection failed where the plaintiff did not allege membership in a protected class or purposeful discrimination
• holding that thirty-seven days of punitive isolation did not violate the Eighth Amendment
• stating that a denial of exercise privileges for thirty-seven (37) days was not an atypical and significant hardship in the context of normal prison life
• explaining that “there is no constitutional liberty interest in having state officers follow state law”
• explaining that “there is no constitutional liberty interest in having state officers follow state law or prison officials follow prison regulations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).