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SOLOMON v. ZANT

No. 89-8071.

888 F.2d 1579 (1989)

Beatrice Thomas SOLOMON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter ZANT, et al., Defendants, Willis Marable, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

As Amended January 23, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Hobbs, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellant.

Richard A. Carothers, Lawrenceville, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, HATCHETT, Circuit Judge, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

In reversing the district court in this appeal regarding the enforcement of prison regulations, we distinguish between a prison official's right to immediately enforce regulations involving security and an inmate's right to only be punished in accord with due process.

FACTS

On January 20, 1984, Van Roosevelt Solomon's lawyer arrived at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center at Jackson, Georgia to see Solomon. The...

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