United States Seventh Circuit

The use of a waist belt and leg chains, in addition to handcuffs, during the transport of an individual confined in a medium-security housing facility was an "incremental" deprivation of the individual's asserted liberty interest in the "least restrictive conditions of confinement," and was not a state-created liberty interest cognizable under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2001
• Decided 03/04/2002
• Published 03/04/2002

Judges

• EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary E. Kennelly (argued), Fox & Fox, Madison, WI, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Doyle, Joely Urdan (argued), Office of the Attorney General Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for defendant-appellee.