Wolfe v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Where procedural due process has been afforded in the prison proceeding, [the Wolff] statement will provide prison officials with documentary proof demonstrating the factual basis of any action by the prison disciplinary board. A result can be reached at the pleading stage. As we have noted previously, the role of the district court is not to afford a de novo review of the disciplinary board’s factual findings. The district court should simply determine whether the decision was supported by some facts. The sole and only issue of constitutional substance is whether there exists any evidence at all, that is, whether there is any basis in fact to support the action taken by the prison officials. Otherwise the federal court would assume the task of retrying all prison disciplinary disputes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilson v. Farrier

2. “due process mandates that the [hearing officer] undertake in good faith to establish the informant’s reliability, at least to its own satisfaction. There must be some information on the record from which a tribunal can reasonably conclude that the [hearing officer] undertook such an inquiry and, upon such inquiry, concluded that the informant was reliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 774 F. Supp. 189 - Russell v. Coughlin

3. “solely on the report by a prison official of what an informant claims to have witnessed with no information as to the identity or the reliability of the informant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Russell v. Scully