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· 12/18/1984

Spencer Harris v. James Greer, Dwight Brockmeyer, and Clarence Cochran

Citations

  • 750 F.2d 617
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 15821

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an inmate has no constitutional right to a job of his choice
  • \A policy of deliberate racial segregation of prisoners would raise serious questions under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.\
  • “A policy of deliberate racial segregation of prisoners would raise serious questions under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
  • “an 1 inmate has of course no constitutional right to the cellmate . . . of his choice.”
  • “A policy of deliberate racial segregation of prisoners would raise serious questions under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
  • allegation that prison officials repeatedly denied black prisoner’s request for white cell mate while in protective custody stated equal protection claim

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Judges: Posner, Bauer, Cudahy, Pos-Ner

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