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BURNS v. PA DEPT. OF CORRECTION

No. 07-1678.

544 F.3d 279 (2008)

Rodney BURNS, Appellant v. PA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION; SCI-Graterford; Secretary Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D.; Donald Williamson; David Diguglielmo; Thomas Dohman; Mary Canino; John Does(s); Confidential Informant # 1; Confidential Informant # 2; Robert S. Bitner; Levi Hosband; Frank Regan; Tony Wolfe, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed September 19, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey M. Boerger (Argued), Stan S. Kuruvilla, Jane Lee Huang, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.

Claudia M. Tesoro (Argued), Calvin R. Koons, John G. Knorr, III, Attorney General, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.

Before SMITH, HARDIMAN, and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

The Hohfeldian issue presented in this appeal requires us to determine whether a disciplinary conviction directing that an inmate's institutional account be assessed for medical or other expenses implicates a property interest sufficient to trigger the protections of procedural due process.1 Appellant Rodney Burns ("Burns"), while an inmate at SCI-Graterford...

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