Court Opinion

ID: 9482538
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:53:01.652964+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:03.125040
License: Public Domain

WELLFORD, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in Judge Ryan’s careful analysis of the issues in this complex and long-extended case. I write separately, however, to emphasize that the single issue remanded — the claimed periodical involvement and wrongful classification decision affecting Hardin — is a very close question for me. This decision essentially was a committee decision, not a personal decision, by Straub. Unless Hardin can show that other committee members routinely deferred to Straub, effectually abandoned their individual decisionmaking responsibility as committee members, or that Straub wrongfully sought to influence them with some personal animus against Hardin, I would find no due process cause of action established against defendant Straub.