Silverstein v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

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• finding liberty interest in avoiding indefinite stay in segregated confinement, but no interest in avoiding transfer to the ADX from other similar facility
• dismissing the plaintiff’s procedural due process claim, because “Mr. Silverstein’s transfer to an administrative segregation facility did not represent a substantial alteration of the conditions of his confinement”
• “No case has held that prisoners have an absolute entitlement to the eventual release from solitary confinement.”
• “Where . . . the entity is also named, there is no need for an official-capacity claim.”
• “Where . . . the entity is also named, there is no need for an official- capacity claim.”
• “Notice of the factual basis underlying one’s segregated confinement and a fair opportunity for rebuttal ‘are among the most important procedural mechanisms for purposes of avoiding erroneous deprivations’ of liberty interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).