United States Tenth Circuit

The district court erred in dismissing plaintiff-inmates' claim that the regulations and policies of defendant-corrections officials, limiting plaintiffs' use of various publications, violates plaintiffs' constitutional rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/22/2004
• Published 12/22/2004

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, HENRY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce Plenk, (Max Kautsch with him on the brief) Law Office of Bruce Plenk, Lawrence, KS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., J. Patrick Sullivan, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Kansas City MO, filed an amicus brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri, on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy G. Madden, Senior Counsel to the Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, Topeka, KS, for Defendants-Appellees.