United States Third Circuit

In an inmate's suit alleging due-process and retaliation claims against prison officials, summary judgment for defendants is reversed and remanded where a disciplinary conviction directing that an inmate's institutional account be assessed for medical or other expenses implicates a property interest sufficient to trigger the protections of procedural due process.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2008
• Decided 09/19/2008
• Published 09/19/2008

Judges

• Before SMITH, HARDIMAN, and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey M. Boerger (Argued), Stan S. Kuruvilla, Jane Lee Huang, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Claudia M. Tesoro (Argued), Calvin R. Koons, John G. Knorr, III, Attorney General, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.