United States Eighth Circuit

Due process challenge to discipline was properly dismissed where prisoner failed to show thirty days in punitive segregation was "atypical and significant hardship"; action for loss of good time credit must be brought via habeas corpus rather than section 1983 action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2002
• Published 05/01/2002

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, LAY, and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dean C. Eyler, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Amy K. Rotenberg, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert M. Lewis, Marlene A. Petersen, Minneapolis, MN, argued (John W. Riches, II, Appleton, MN, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.