United States Eighth Circuit

In a civil rights suit brought against plaintiff's probation officer and prison officials, summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings for defendants are affirmed where: 1) the mere filing of a petition to revoke probation for failure to participate in sex offender treatment was not unconstitutional compulsion, and even if it were, it did not subject defendant to a claim for civil liability; 2) the favorable-termination rule barred a claim that prison officials unconstitutionally suspended his right to earn performance-based sentence-reduction credits under state law; 3) alternatively, prison officials did not violate plaintiff's right against self-incrimination by withholding sentence-reduction credits; 4) a claim that prison officials did not provide constitutionally sufficient access to the prisons library, and that the library was inadequate, failed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2007
• Published 05/04/2007

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, COLLOTON, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chad R. McCabe, argued, Bismarck, ND, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jean R. Mullen, argued, Asst. Attorney General, Bismarck, ND, for appellee.