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Habeas and 1983 Remedy for Disciplinary Hearings Discussed
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1997, page 8
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit discussed the application of habeas corpus and section 1983 challenges to prison disciplinary hearings. This is an extremely convoluted and confusing ruling, which the court acknowledged at the outset by noting that the parties could not even agree on the spelling of ...
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Notice of Hearing,
Damages,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Illinois.
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