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WRIGHT v. SMITH

No. 607, Docket 93-2415.

21 F.3d 496 (1994)

Huey B. WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Harold SMITH and Thomas A. Coughlin, III, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Bauer, Woods, Oviatt, Gilman, Sturman & Clarke, Rochester, NY, submitted a brief for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Nancy A. Spiegel and Martin A. Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gens., Albany, NY, submitted a brief for defendants-appellees.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, OAKES and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

The primary question on this appeal is whether an inmate's extended confinement without a hearing in a correctional facility's Special Housing Unit (SHU) violates a Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest. Huey B. Wright, formerly an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility, appeals from the June 11, 1993, judgment of the District Court for the Western District of New York (Kenneth R. Fisher, Magistrate Judge) granting defendants' motion for...

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