Legal Opinion
Guajardo v. Estelle
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided June 7, 1977No. Civ. A. 71-H-570, 72-H-1076PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum
SINGLETON, District Judge.
For six years now this court has grappled with the constitutional problems presented by the mail rules and regulations of the Texas Department of Corrections. In 1971, plaintiff Guadalupe Guajardo, an inmate at the Texas Department of Corrections, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of himself and other TDC inmates to challenge the constitutionality of the TDC correspondence rules and practices then in effect. Following trial of the case in 1972, the court found a substantial number of the rules invalid on first, sixth, and fourteenth amendment…
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