Legal Opinion
Frank Ervin Altizer, Jr. v. George Deeds, and Richard Fleming Sergeant Minton, Steven H. Goldblatt, Amicus Curiae
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 7, 1999No. 97-7111PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed by published opinion. Judge Williams wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Widener joined. Judge Michael wrote a dissenting opinion.
OPINION
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
George Deeds, warden of the Keen Mountain Correctional Center (KMCC), appeals, through the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the district court’s order granting Frank Altizer, a Virginia prisoner, partial summary judgment in Altizer’s 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West Supp.1999) action alleging interference with his outgoing mail. The district court held that Warden Deeds’s practice of routinely opening and…
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