United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action in which plaintiff-inmate alleged that defendant-prison officials violated his due process rights by housing him in the Intensive Management Unit without periodic, meaningful review of his status, is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiff's conditions of confinement implicate a protected liberty interest giving rise to the procedural protections of the Due Process Clause; 2) plaintiff's claims against defendant-Department of Corrections and his damages claims against the individual defendants in their official capacities are barred by the Eleventh Amendment; 3) plaintiff's remaining claims are barred by qualified immunity; and 4) with regard to plaintiff's claim for declaratory relief, the record showed that plaintiff had been released from the Intensive Management Unit and there was no evidence that he was likely to again be subject to the challenged conditions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2014
• Published 04/29/2014

Judges

• GOODWIN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

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