Legal Opinion
Hall v. State of Md.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided February 8, 1977No. Civ. 71-37-K, 72-60-K, 72-295-K, 72-417-K, 72-642-K and K-74-1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge:
In these six cases 1 plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief. Defend ants are officials of the Maryland State Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Plaintiffs allege that defendants have failed to provide adequate law library facilities for, and legal assistance to, indigent inmates in Maryland’s confinement institutions including Patuxent, and thus have unconstitutionally infringed upon plaintiffs’ rights to access to the courts, discriminated against plaintiffs because of their indigency in violation of the equal protection clause…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Graham v. State of MarylandDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1978
- Carter v. MandelCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1978
- Neal v. BerglandDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1980
- Carter v. KamkaDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1980
- James Edward Carter v. Marvin Mandel, Governor, Robert J. Lally, Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Service, J. Brown Hardy, Acting Director of Patuxent Institution and Etc., James Edward Carter v. J. Brown Hardy, Acting Director, Patuxent, Charles Anegus Allen, James Edward Carter, Inmates, Patuxent Institution, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, and Robert T. Morgan v. Robert J. Lally, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Mark A. Levine, Commissioner, Maryland Division of Correction, J. Brown Hardy, Acting Director, Patuxent Institution, Franklin Goldstein, Chairman, Board of Patuxent Institution, Jonas Rappeport, M. D., Associate Member, Board of Patuxent Institution, Rev. Marcus G. Wood, Associate Member, Board of Patuxent Institution, and Peter Lejins, M. D., Associate Member, Board of Patuxent Institution, Jerome D. Fran, Robert A. Gordon, Edward A. Tomlinson, Monor B. Crager, Robert B. Levinson, Olive Quinn, John M. Pettibone, Leonard A. Briscoe, Jasper R. Clay, Jr., Russell J. White, and Robert Cahill, Members of Patuxent's Board of DirectorsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1978
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