Legal Opinion
Allen v. Coughlin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 24, 1995No. 1616, Docket 94-2665PublishedCited by 303 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
Jimmie Lee Allen appeals from Judge Preska’s grant of summary judgment in favor of New York corrections officials Thomas A. Coughlin III, Charles J. Scully, and Dennis Bliden. Allen sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, because prison authorities at Green Haven Correctional Facility twice removed newspaper clippings from Allen’s incoming personal mail on the ground that they were contraband. The clippings were from Allen’s hometown newspaper, the Camden, South Carolina Chronicle-Independent, and were, so far as we can tell, entirely innocuous.
Allen…
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