Huey B. Wright v. Harold Smith and Thomas A. Coughlin, III

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1994-04-06

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JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge: The primary question on this appeal is whether an inmate’s extended confinement without a hearing in a correctional facility’s Special Housing Unit (SHU) violates a Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest. Huey B. Wright, formerly an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility, appeals from the June 11, 1993, judgment of the District Court for the Western Distri…

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