U.S. Appeals Court: GOOD TIME PUNISHMENT.

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Malchi v. Thaler, 211 F.3d 953 (5th Cir. 2000). A state prisoner filed a petition for habeas corpus relief based on the alleged denial of his due process rights in connection with a disciplinary proceeding. The district court granted the petition and the state appealed. The appeals court reversed, finding that the prisoner's thirty day loss of commissary privileges and cell restriction as the result of a disciplinary action did not implicate due process concerns. The court also found that the...