Legal Opinion
Newell v. Sauser
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 11, 1996No. 94-35243PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge:
Newell is an inmate in an Alaska state correctional center. He sued prison officials, alleging that they violated his civil rights by confiscating legal materials from his cell. The district court ruled that the officials were not entitled to assert a qualified immunity defense. They filed an interlocutory appeal.1 We affirm.
I. Background
Newell was a prison law librarian. He kept a computer in his cell, as all inmates were permitted to do. In March, 1989, prison guard Hartzler entered his cell and seized 59 pages of computer-generated, rough-draft legal…
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