Legal Opinion
Clyde Weiler v. James Purkett Leah Embly
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 2, 1998No. 96-1022PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1049BEAM, Circuit Judge.
In this six-year-old section 1983 lawsuit, Clyde Weiler asserts that the defendants, prison officials at the Farmington, Missouri Correctional Facility, violated his constitutional rights when they refused to deliver a package to him that did not conform to prison regulations. A panel of this court affirmed the district court’s denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity. Our decision to grant en banc review vacated that opinion. See Weiler v. Purkett, 104 F.3d 149 (8th Cir.1997). We now reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
This case involves two rules regarding inmate mail…
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