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Kirby v. James, No. 98-6236 (11th Cir.) (195 F.3d 1285) (November 17, 1999) (Per Curiam)

In the instant case, the Eleventh Circuit held that attaching the label of “sex offender” to a prisoner who has never been convicted of a sexual offense is sufficiently stigmatizing as to trigger the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.

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