Legal Opinion
Zachary Morgan v. Ernest Montanye, Warden of Attica State Prison, Correction Officer Steggs, Etal.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 6, 1975No. 614, Docket 74-2390PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
Zachary Morgan, an inmate at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility, appeals from an order by Chief Judge Cur-tin of the Western District dismissing Morgan’s pro se civil rights suit (42 U.S.C. § 1983) for injunctive relief and $15,000 damages arising out of allegedly unconstitutional interference by Attica officials with mail sent to Morgan by his attorney in connection with a pending state criminal appeal in the summer of 1973. We affirm.
This suit involved four items of correspondence which Morgan alleged were not handled in accordance with prison regulations…
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