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BEARD v. LIVESAY

No. 85-5730.

798 F.2d 874 (1986)

William R. BEARD, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary J. LIVESAY, Warden; Robert Davies, Acting Warden; and Evans Fine, Director of Offender Classification, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne E. Uhl (argued), Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Susan L. Kay (argued), Vanderbilt Legal Clinic, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MARTIN and GUY, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The defendants, prison officials of the state of Tennessee, appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment to the plaintiff prisoner, William Beard. The district court held that under Tennessee statutes and regulations the reclassification of a prison inmate from minimum to medium security without a hearing implicated a protectible liberty interest under the fourteenth amendment. The court ordered the prison officials to...

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