Legal Opinion
Keup v. Hopkins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 4, 2010No. 09-1079PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Circuit Judge.
Tyler Keup, an artist in the custody of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS), tried to send drawings of a marijuana leaf and a bare-breasted woman to his mother and the Maoist Internationalist Movement (Maoists). When NDCS rebuffed Keup’s efforts, Keup sued various NDCS officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violating his First Amendment rights. The district court directed a verdict in Keup’s favor against F.X. Hopkins and Dennis Bakewell, awarded Keup nominal damages, and ordered Hopkins and Bakewell to pay approximately $25,000 in attorney fees and…
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