DREHER v. SIELAFF

No. 80-1168.

636 F.2d 1141 (1980)

Robert H. DREHER, Director, Prison Legal Aid Project, Southern Illinois University, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Allyn R. SIELAFF, individually and in official capacity as Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1980.

As Amended December 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Cassorla, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Richard J. Habinger, Prison Legal Aid, Carbondale, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court granting plaintiffs-appellees' motion for summary judgment and denying defendants-appellants' cross motion for summary judgment in an attorney access case involving inmates in a state institution. The district court entered a permanent injunction governing attorney-inmate access.

The Prison Legal Aid Project (PLA)1 filed a complaint on...

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