United States Tenth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that prison officials deprived inmate-plaintiff of his property in violation of his constitutional due process rights when they confiscated a money order sent to him, summary judgment for defendant-official is affirmed where defendant had no property right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to receive a contraband money order while in prison.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2006
• Published 08/31/2006

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before PORFILIO, BALDOCK, and EBEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:   George W. Steffey, Jr., pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory Thomas Metcalfe, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma Attorney General's Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees.