Legal Opinion
Guajardo-Palma v. Martinson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2010No. 10-1726PublishedCited by 200 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the dismissal of a suit for failure to state a claim presents the recurrent issue of the constitutional rights of prison inmates regarding “legal mail,” a
technical term for mail relating to legal proceedings. Fed R.App. P. 4(c); Fed. R.App. P. 25(a)(2)(C). Almost all civil proceedings by prisoners pit the prisoner against employees of the prison, the prison itself, or a state or federal correctional authority. It is natural for courts to be concerned about the defendants or their agents reading the prisoner’s correspondence with his lawyer, if he has…
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