Court Opinion

ID: 9489536
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:18:12.959427+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:35.108572
License: Public Domain

HEANEY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I reluctantly concur with the majority’s opinion. I am afraid that this case falls squarely within the holding of Sandin v. Conner, — U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 2293, 132 L.Ed.2d 418 (1995). Although bound by that decision, I wish to voice my agreement with Justice Breyer’s eloquent dissent as well as my hope that this court will contain Sandin to the facts presented in that case. In this case, Wycoff was subjected to forty-five days in segregated confinement. I simply disagree with the Supreme Court’s characterization of this status as neither atypical nor a *1191significant deprivation. The simple fact that such confinement is used as punishment of inmates indicates the contrary. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has decided the issue and, therefore, I must concur.