Earl E. Nickens v. Carl White

Earl E. Nickens, an inmate at the Missouri Training Center for Men at Moberly, Missouri, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the alleged deprivation of his constitutional rights. Specifically, he complained that the confiscation by the defendants 1 of a catalogue of office supplies, which he had requested from Keller’s Office Supplies in Moberly and which had been mailed to him at the institution, (1) deprived him of property without due process of law, (2) deprived him of adequate and meaningful access to the courts, and (3) deprived him of his First Amendment rights. The…