United States Second Circuit

District court judgment dismissing plaintiff's due process and First Amendment claims is affirmed where: 1) the court properly dismissed plaintiff's due process claim, as a federal prisoner has no protected property interest in a UNICOR job assignment; and 2) the court properly dismissed plaintiff's First Amendment claim for failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2009
• Published 06/11/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  MINER, KATZMANN, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neil Johnson, pro se, Otisville, N.Y., Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew L. Schwartz, Assistant United States Attorney (Elizabeth Wolstein, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Lev L. Dassin, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.