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WI Ad Seg Rules Don't Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 3
Wisconsin regulations governing the transfer of state prisoners to "temporary lockup" status do not create a protected liberty interest under the fourteenth amendment due process clause, a majority of the Wisconsin supreme court ruled June 3, 1993. The majority agreed with Smith v. Shettle , 946 F.2d 1250 (7 th …
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