Arturo Reveles v. A. Campbell, et al.

Summary

The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois conducted a merit review under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A of Arturo Reveles’s amended § 1983 complaint concerning prison disciplinary proceedings, restrictive housing, loss of good-conduct credit, and related classification decisions. The court allowed Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process claims to proceed against A. Campbell, O’Blenis, John Doe, Gregory Little, and Kelsey Smith, while dismissing claims against Hitchens and Mindi Nurse and dismissing Ryan Nothangle and Latoya Hughes without prejudice.

Holdings

1. The amended complaint plausibly alleged a Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process claim against A. Campbell, O’Blenis, John Doe, Gregory Little, and Kelsey Smith.
2. The allegations against Hitchens and Mindi Nurse were insufficient to state a plausible Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process claim, and those defendants were dismissed without prejudice.
3. Ryan Nothangle and Latoya Hughes were dismissed without prejudice because Reveles no longer named them as defendants in the amended complaint.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the amended complaint plausibly alleged a constitutionally protected liberty interest and constitutionally deficient procedures arising from the prison disciplinary proceedings and resulting loss of good-conduct credit and restrictive confinement.
2. Whether the allegations against Hitchens and Mindi Nurse concerning reclassification as a staff assaulter stated a plausible Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process claim.
3. Whether Ryan Nothangle and Latoya Hughes, who were no longer named in the amended complaint, should remain defendants.

Disposition

other