Wilkinson v. Austin

Wilkinson v. Austin
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 30, 2005 Decided June 13, 2005
Full case name	Wilkinson, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Austin et al.
Citations	545 U.S. 209 (more) 125 S. Ct. 2384; 162 L. Ed. 2d 174
Case history
Prior	Ruling in favor of the prison inmate plaintiffs, 189 F. Supp. 2d 719 (N.D. Ohio 2002), as modified, 204 F. Supp. 2d 1024 (N.D. Ohio 2002), affirmed by the Sixth Circuit, 372 F.3d 346 (6th Cir. 2004); cert. granted, 543 U.S. ___ (2005).
Holding
Ohio's procedures for assigning prisoners to its Supermax facility conform with procedural due process protections.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Kennedy, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Wilkinson v. Austin, 545 U.S. 209 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that while the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment gives rise to a liberty interest in not being placed in a Supermax prison, Ohio's procedures for determining which prisoners should be placed there satisfied the requirements of due process.