DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether courts should determine the procedural due process protections that apply in prison disciplinary proceedings by balancing ordinary due process principles against a prison's penological needs under the test this Court established in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974), and Superintendent v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445 (1985), as the Second, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits hold, or whether courts should instead recognize only those rights recognized in Wolff and Hill, as the Seventh Circuit held below
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether courts should determine the procedural due process protections that apply in prison disciplinary proceedings by balancing ordinary due process principles against a prison’s penological needs under the test this Court established in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974), and Superintendent v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445 (1985), as the Second, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits hold, or whether courts should instead recognize only those rights recognized in Wolff and Hill, as the Seventh Circuit held below.