Smith v. Bounds

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The appeal in these three consolidated cases arose out of like claims asserted by various inmates of the North Carolina Correctional System to the effect that, by failing to provide them with adequate legal library facilities, the State was denying to them reasonable access to the Courts and equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The District Court granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and required the responsible State officials to submit a proposed plan for implementing the State’s obligation to provide…