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SOTO v. WALKER

No. 635, Docket 93-2291.

44 F.3d 169 (1995)

Anselmo SOTO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Hans WALKER, Supt., Auburn, C.F., T.H. Giltner, Lt., Auburn, C.F., Donald Selsky, Docs., Albany, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Petrow, New York City (Daniel J. Kramer, Schulte Roth & Zabel, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin A. Hotvet, Albany, NY (G. Oliver Koppell, Atty. Gen., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Peter G. Crary, Ass't Atty. Gen., Albany, NY, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before: OAKES, JACOBS, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

The intricacies attending the law of prisoners' due process rights can confuse even the most experienced of lawyers. Little wonder then that Anselmo Soto, a prisoner acting pro se, struggled to assert the appropriate due process doctrine when he initiated this action against prison officials. Yet, Soto's instinct that he may not have received the process that was due him was sound. And the facts he alleged clearly describe an actionable...

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