Legal Opinion
Richard Blaisdell v. C. Frappiea
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2013No. 10-16845PublishedCited by 260 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether an inmate engaged in constitutionally protected activity when he served a prison official with a summons and complaint on another inmate’s behalf.
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The State of Hawaii contracts with the Corrections Corporation of America (“CCA”) to house some of its prisoners within the Saguaro Correctional Center, a privately operated prison in Eloy, Arizona. 1 Richard Blaisdell is one of those inmates. On April 23, 2008, Blaisdell visited Christina Frappiea—the prison’s Classification Supervisor—to ask her to notarize a document for a new lawsuit he…
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