Legal Opinion
Nichols v. Nix
District Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided January 11, 1993No. 4:90-cv-30316PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BENNETT, United States Magistrate Judge.
Plaintiff Tracy Allen Nichols is an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa (“ISP”). Nichols asserts that his First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution were violated by the Defendants, Crispus C. Nix and Darrold Dressier, the warden and the mailroom clerk at ISP, by denying him three publications from the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (“CJCC”). The publications were denied based upon administrative regulations providing that an inmate may be denied publications that are “likely to be…
2Cases cited89 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
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