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102029P.pdf 02/03/2012 Dennis Strutton v. Linda Meade
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-2029
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. Plaintiff, a civilly-committed resident of the
Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment Center, had standing to challenge
the treatment program and the use of certain disciplinary practices in the
program; plaintiff did not have a fundamental due process right to sex
offender treatment; treatment plaintiff received was not so lacking as to
shock the conscience; use of "Restriction Table" and "Restriction Area"
did not violate plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights as
nothing about the defendants' use of the Restriction Table was so
egregious as to shock the conscience; district court did not abuse its
discretion by denying plaintiff's motion for sanctions based on defendants'
destruction of certain emails