DAIGLE v. HALL

No. 77-1281.

564 F.2d 884 (1977)

Robert J. DAIGLE et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Frank A. HALL et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 9, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis P. Flanagan, Boston, Mass., for appellants.

Michael C. Donahue, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Violent Crime Unit, Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and John P. Corbett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, and WOLLENBERG, District Judge.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellants, inmates in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, brought this suit alleging that their transfers from the general population to the Departmental Segregation Unit (DSU) deprived them of due process of law. We must first decide what process, if any, was due.

In Montanye v. Haymes, 427 U.S. 236, 96 S.Ct. 2543, 49 L.Ed.2d 466 (1976), the Supreme Court held that "[a]s long...

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