Rienholtz v. Campbell

How courts have described this case

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

• “Prison regulations . . . were never intended to confer rights on inmates or serve as a basis for constitutional claims.”
• “Prison regulations . . . were never intended to confer rights on inmates or serve as a basis for constitutional claims.”
• “an inmate cannot immunize himself from adverse administrative action by prison officials merely by filing grievances and then claiming that everything that happens to him is retaliatory”
• “[L]anguage in state laws or prison regulations no longer creates a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.” (citing Rimmer-Bey v. Brown, 62 F.3d 789, 790–91 (6th Cir. 1995))
• “[T]his case has nothing to do with the legitimate exercise of the right to inform prison staff of problems, and everything to do with the inmate’s desire to engage in a power struggle with [prison] staff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).