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HANVEY v. BLANKENSHIP

No. 79-6514.

631 F.2d 296 (1980)

Warren E. HANVEY, Appellant, v. W. D. BLANKENSHIP, H. E. Thompson, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Hogshire, Charlottesville, Va. (Paxson, Smith, Boyd, Gilliam & Gouldman, P. C., Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Guy Horsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen. of Va., Alan Katz, Asst. Atty. Gen. Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

In this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Warren Hanvey seeks return of the $750 that prison officials confiscated from him as contraband following its discovery in his possession during a routine prison shakedown. Because prison regulations explicitly prohibit unauthorized possession of any United States currency, prison officials, having found Hanvey guilty of the violation, placed the $750 in the Inmate Canteen Fund. The district court held that this...

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