Nowlin v. Scurr

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs Nowlin and Benadum appeal from district court’s decree providing them only partial relief in their mandamus action that alleged they were being deprived of access to the courts. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Plaintiffs’ pro se petition, filed November 21, 1980, alleged they were confined in “Maximum security setting administrative segregation” at Iowa State Penitentiary. They essentially alleged they were being denied meaningful access to the courts by being deprived of ball-point pens, pencils, erasers, hardback or bound lawbooks, use of a…