Sealey v. Giltner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the receipt of two letters from an inmate complaining of alleged due process violations was insufficient to demonstrate the requisite personal involvement on the part of a prison administrator
• holding that the receipt of two letters from an inmate complaining of alleged due process violations was insufficient to demonstrate the requisite personal involvement on the part of a prison administrator
• noting that even after Sandin, courts must determine whether the state has created a liberty interest by statute or regulation
• emphasizing \desirability of fact-finding before determining whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in remaining free from segregated confinement\
• relying on cases involving disciplinary segregation in determining whether plaintiff has liberty interest in remaining free of administrative segregation
• finding that a Department of Corrections Commissioner was not personally involved in alleged constitutional violation where he forwarded plaintiff's letter of complaint to a staff member for decision, and he responded to plaintiff's letter inquiring as to status of matter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

44 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Spavone v. New York State Department of Correctional Services
  Second Circuit· 2013-06-20· cited 872×
• Donald Montero v. Brion Travis, Commissioner Kenneth Graber, Commissioner
  Second Circuit· 1999-03-26· cited 443×
• Carl Gordon v. Fred Schilling
  Fourth Circuit· 2019-09-04· cited 203×
• Rex Chappell v. R. Mandeville
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-01-31· cited 163×
• Emmeth Sealey v. T.H. Giltner
  Second Circuit· 1999-12-06· cited 160×
• Sealey v. Giltner
  Second Circuit· 1997-06-16· cited 113×
• Tellier v. Fields
  Second Circuit· 2000-11-01· cited 107×
• Torres v. Mazzuca
  S.D. New York· 2003-02-25· cited 65×
• Vogelfang v. Capra
  S.D. New York· 2012-03-13· cited 59×
• Shell v. Brzezniak
  W.D. New York· 2005-04-21· cited 55×
• Collins v. Goord
  S.D. New York· 2008-09-22· cited 53×
• Rivera v. Goord
  S.D. New York· 2000-09-26· cited 40×
• Jackson v. Johnson
  S.D. New York· 1998-07-23· cited 30×
• Allah v. Poole
  W.D. New York· 2007-08-14· cited 25×
• Lee v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1998-10-26· cited 22×
• Husbands v. McClellan
  W.D. New York· 1998-01-13· cited 21×
• Lloyd v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2014-08-04· cited 18×
• Warren v. Irvin
  W.D. New York· 1997-12-02· cited 16×
• Pizzuto v. County of Nassau
  E.D. New York· 2003-01-16· cited 16×
• Thompson v. Pallito
  D. Vermont· 2013-05-29· cited 16×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Sandin v. Conner
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-19· cited 9,097×
• Hewitt v. Helms
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 3,877×
• Huey B. Wright v. Harold Smith and Thomas A. Coughlin, III
  Second Circuit· 1994-04-06· cited 1,168×
• James Williams v. Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, and W. Morgan, C.O., Attica Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1986-01-15· cited 571×
• Jerry Young A/K/A Ramadan v. Donald Selsky, P. Orengo, R. Althouse, R.J. Cunningham, D. Schaller, L. Jewett
  Second Circuit· 1994-11-21· cited 331×
• Leonard Greene and Joyce Greene v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1994-01-06· cited 317×
• John McCann Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. T. Coughlin, Iii, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 1983-01-06· cited 254×
• Alphonso Samuels v. J. Mockry, G. Hewston, W. Higgins and J. Dowdle
  Second Circuit· 1996-02-20· cited 213×
• Mario Bedoya v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Donald Selsky Frank B. Ireland, Jr., Lieutenant T. Van Camp, C.O. And Frank E. Irvin, Supt.
  Second Circuit· 1996-08-05· cited 122×
• McKINNON v. PATTERSON
  Second Circuit· 1978-02-21· cited 107×
• Frazier v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1996-04-10· cited 78×
• Brooks v. DiFasi
  Second Circuit· 1997-04-09· cited 69×
• Green v. Bauvi
  Second Circuit· 1995-01-25· cited 68×
• Vincent Miller v. Donald Selsky, Director of Special Housing, S. Bruso, Educational Supervisor at Barehill Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1997-04-02· cited 61×
• Debra Jo Edwards, of the Estate of David John Edwards v. Honeywell, Inc., and Honeywell Protection Services
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-04-03· cited 40×
• Giakoumelos v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1996-06-20· cited 32×
• Duaut A. Duamutef v. John O'keefe, Superintendent, Gouverneur Correctional Facility Thomas Skipper B. Huckeba
  Second Circuit· 1996-10-18· cited 32×
• Bryant v. Rudman
  S.D. New York· 1996-06-24· cited 5×