Legal Opinion
Paul Michael Blaise v. George Fenn C. Heald Donald Dressler Mary Piper Crispus C. Nix Paul Hedgepeth James Helling
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 23, 1995No. 94-1769PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Paul Michael Blaise, an inmate at Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), appeals the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment to defendants in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 right of access to the courts action. Because we find that the ISP’s inmate mail regulation is facially valid and that Blaise suffered no actual injury as a result of the regulation, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
From October 16 to December 9, 1992, the mailroom at ISP seven times returned outgoing legal mail to Blaise, stating that he could not send mail at that time because his inmate account was approximately fifty…
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