BERRIER v. ALLEN

No. 90-6425.

951 F.2d 622 (1991)

Clarence T. BERRIER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sherrill ALLEN; Garland Shook; Herb Myers, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie Renee Nydick, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., Raleigh, N.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

LaVee Hamer Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., North Carolina Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, N.C., argued (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., Sylvia Thibaut, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RUSSELL, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to determine whether certain North Carolina prison regulations concerned with the administrative segregation of state prison inmates confer upon those inmates a liberty interest for which the Fourteenth Amendment provides procedural due process protections. Clarence Berrier, an inmate confined in administrative segregation without prior notice or any opportunity to be heard, claimed in this action...

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