Legal Opinion
Yang v. Missouri Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 15, 2016No. 15-2231PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.
Richard Yang, an inmate in Missouri, appeals the dismissal of his lawsuit against several officials of the Missouri Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Yang alleged that the officials violated his constitutional rights when they censored his Chinese-language mail and denied him the ability to place telephone calls to China. The district court 2 granted summary judgment for the officials, and we affirm.
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Yang was born in China in 1940. He moved to the United States in 1984 and is now a citizen. Yang has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of…
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- Overton v. BazzettaSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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