Legal Opinion
Blaine Sallier v. Deborah Brooks and Christine Ramsey
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 18, 2003No. 01-1269PublishedCited by 236 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Blaine Sallier, filed this action as a Michigan state prisoner, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, charging that the defendants, two prison mailroom clerks, had violated his civil rights by unlawfully “opening, censoring, and interfer[ing with his] legal mail” and seeking declaratory, monetary, and injunctive relief. The district court declined to rule on the defendants’ claim of qualified immunity before trial and instead instructed the jury to determine whether certain correspondence was in fact legal mail and whether that correspondence ■ had been…
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