Ronald Dean Brown v. Crispus C. Nix John Henry John Emmet Paul Hedgepath Charles Harper Paul Grossheim Hal Farrier

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• holding that concept of substantive due process prohibits government from engaging in conduct that \shocks the conscience\ or interferes with rights implicit in the concept of ordered liberty
• holding that placement in administrative segregation for nine years, as result of several disciplinary convictions, did not violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding that confinement to administrative segregation for nine years did not violate Eighth Amendment
• holding the Eighth Amendment is not violated by imposing terms of administrative segregation ranging from two days to one year and ultimately totaling nearly nine years
• noting that the denial of a claim of qualified immunity on a motion for summary judgment, to the extent it turns on a question of law, is an appealable final judgment
• finding no Eighth Amendment violation when a prisoner received “nine years of administrative segregation for disciplinary infractions”

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