Johnson v. Nebraska, Department of Correctional Services

MEMORANDUM ON APPEAL

URBOM, Senior District Judge.

The plaintiff has appealed a recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge. The plaintiff’s position is that the library at the Hastings Correction Center is inadequate and there is no one at the center trained in the law to assist the plaintiff in the library. I must deny the appeal and shall accept the recommendation of the magistrate judge.

As explained by the magistrate judge’s memorandum of August 23, 1992, the standard is, as stated by the United States Supreme Court in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 828, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 1498, 52…