213455P.pdf   04/24/2023  James Spann  v.  George Lombardi
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-3455
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. For the Court's prior opinion in 
   the matter, see Spann v. Lombardi, 960 F.3d 1085 (8th Cir. 2020). Even 
   assuming for the sake of analysis that plaintiff enjoyed a clearly 
   established liberty interest in avoiding assignment to Administrative 
   Segregation, it was not clearly established that he was entitled to the 
   procedures set forth in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974) as the 
   Wolff procedures do not apply when an inmate is transferred to 
   Administrative Segregation; instead, a transfer to Administrative 
   Segregation requires only informal, non-adversary due process procedures 
   like those set out in Hewitt v. Helms, 459 U.S. 460 (1983) and Greenholtz 
   v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal Complex, 442 U.S. 1 (1979); in light of this, 
   a reasonable prison official could have believed that the procedures 
   applied in plaintiff's case were constitutionally sufficient, and the 
   prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's due 
   process claim; with respect to plaintiff's allegations of retaliatory 
   discipline, the violation reports regarding plaintiff's alleged misconduct 
   meet the "some evidence" standard established in Hartsfield v. Nichols, 
   511 F.3d 826 (8th Cir. 2008), and the jail officials were entitled to 
   qualified immunity on plaintiff's claims alleging retaliatory discipline.