WAGNER v. HANKS

No. 95-3108.

128 F.3d 1173 (1997)

Thomas F. WAGNER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Craig A. HANKS, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Eisenberg (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Jon B. Laramore (argued), James D. Dimitri, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Amicus Curiae.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

A state prisoner seeks federal habeas corpus, claiming to have been deprived of liberty within the meaning of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by being placed in disciplinary segregation. The principal though not only question presented by his appeal from the dismissal of his claim is whether, in determining whether such a deprivation has occurred, the district court must compare conditions in disciplinary segregation with those...

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