Billy Dean Smith and Jacob Lee Anagick, Appellants v. State of Alaska, Department of Corrections, Nancy Dahlstrom…

Summary

The court affirmed summary judgment for the Department of Corrections and its officers, holding that the prisoners received constitutionally adequate process before losing their prison jobs because of administrative segregation. The court assumed, without deciding, that the jobs could be protected interests, but concluded that the segregation hearings provided sufficient safeguards and that separate termination hearings would add little. It also upheld the superior court's refusal to allow late amendments or consolidate the related action. The court did not reach qualified immunity because it found no constitutional violation.