DEAN v. McWHERTER

No. 94-6246.

70 F.3d 43 (1995)

Malcolm P. DEAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ned McWHERTER, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan L. Kay (argued and briefed), Vanderbilt School of Law, Vanderbilt Legal Clinic, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mark A. Hudson, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Civil Rights and Claims Division, Nashville, TN, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: KENNEDY and MOORE, Circuit Judges; JOHNSTONE, District Judge.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal a grant of summary judgment dismissing their claim that a Tennessee law labeling sex offenders "a species of mentally ill persons in the eyes of the general assembly" violates the Fourteenth Amendment by depriving them of liberty without due process of law. For the following reasons we AFFIRM.

I.

This case is a consolidated class action arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs are a class of convicted...

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