Thomas F. Wagner v. Craig A. Hanks

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that in light of Sandin, “the right to litigate disciplinary confinements has become vanishingly small”
• defining the baseline as the conditions of non-disciplinary segregation in a state's most restrictive prison
• “[E]ven a prisoner who had committed a white-collar crime and had been assigned to the lowest-security prison in the state’s system might find himself in segregation for a nondisciplinary reason.”
• “The logic of Sandin implies that the conditions of [plaintiffs] disciplinary segregation are atypical only if no prison in the United States to which he might be transferred for nondisciplinary reasons is more restrictive.”
• when sanction is confinement in disciplinary segregation for a period not exceeding the remaining term of prisoner's incarceration, Sandin does not allow suit complaining about deprivation of liberty
• “Even a prisoner who had committed a white-collar crime and had been assigned to the low- est-security prison in the state’s system might find himself in segregation for a nondisciplinary reason.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).