Legal Opinion
Zachary Morgan v. Edwin J. Lavallee, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 14, 1975No. 75--2044PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
Appellant, an inmate of New York’s Clinton State Prison a/k/a Dannemora, comes to us on this occasion 1 by virtue of dismissal without a hearing of an action he brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which alleged that the following features of his confinement were in violation of his constitutional rights: (1) the prison authorities’ refusal to permit him to receive a specific publication (the January 1974 issue of the “Midnight Special”); (2) an alleged institutional order barring his correspondents from sending him postage stamps; and (3) his placement in solitary confinement…
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