KIKUMURA v. TURNER

No. 93-1847.

28 F.3d 592 (1994)

Yu KIKUMURA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. C.A. TURNER, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan H. Burger, Teresa A. Massa (argued), Meites, Frackman, Mulder & Burger, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Deborah D. Sorkin, Dept. of Justice, General Litigation/Legal Advice Section, Washington, DC, James M. Hipkiss, Office of the U.S. Atty., Civil Div., Fairview Heights, IL, Candice Will (argued), Dept. of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, CUDAHY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Yu Kikumura is a prisoner in the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He is serving a 262-month sentence following a conviction for explosives and passport offenses.1 He is suing C.A. Turner, the prison warden, for prohibiting him from receiving mail in Japanese. This action, Kikumura claims, violates his rights under the First Amendment and the Equal Protection...

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