Meachum v. Fano, , is a 1976 United States Supreme Court case concerning the due process rights of prisoners. In this case, the Court held 6âÂÂ3 that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not grant a prisoner a right to a fact-finding hearing when he was transferred to a new facility, even if it had significantly more unfavorable conditions compared to his previous facility. Justice Byron White wrote the majority opinion, and John Paul Stevens wrote the dissenting opinion.
Based on this decision, federal courts also began to hold that interstate transfers also did not implicate due process concerns. The Supreme Court adopted this view in Olim v. Wakinekona (1983).