VALENTINE v. BEYER

No. 87-5606.

850 F.2d 951 (1988)

Emmitt VALENTINE, Clifford Roberts, Darryl V. Conquest, Charles Holman, James Drayton, Allen Rodziewicz, David Fletcher, Najee Shabazz, James Williams, David Godwin, Darnell Richardson, Otis Terrell, Kenneth Watson, Ali-Muslim Muhammad, Kerwin Colon, Masia Mugmuk, Arnold Tucker, Robert Davis, Askin Muhammad, Lawrence White, Johnny Bankston, Barry Robinson, Jonathan Cook, Michael Barron, Omar Shabazz, Aaron Stamps, Melvin Stamps, Kent Cooper, Lewis Webb, James Webb, Ruben Medal, Michael Graves, Jeff Jacobitti, Robert L. West, Gregory Murchinson, L. Royal Fisher, Earl Bayard, Dawud S. Amin, Raheem Akbar, Abdul Latif, Abdus-Sami A. Akbar, Abdul Qadir, Ali Nasir, Barry Dunn, Leroy Johnson, Joe Kuklinsky, Gerald Gary, Henry Oliveria, Frank Hubbard, Chris Anderson, Anthony Lattimore, Milton J. Conklin, Jr., Frank Miller, Richard Williams, Henry McCree, Edward L. Brown, Gary Reeves, Clifford Robertson, Anthony Frederick, Lawrence Peterson, Stanley Farms, Charlie Farms, Darren Hawkins, Michael Rose, Charlton Franklin, Darvin Elder, James Carter, Nicola Chalet, Roscoe Miller, Thomas A. Patterson, Louis Zeltner, Walter Simon, Derek Bethea, William Marshall, Michael L. Madison, Barry Williamson, Samuel G. Bibby, Eugene Poole, Raymond Torres, Isiah Collins, Claude Tigney, David Mitchell, Walter Saxton, Terrance Hayes, Arnold Farmer, Keith Heard, Abdallah Khaliq & Victor Parker, Herbert Lee Smith, Louis P. Wright, James F. Fornino v. Howard L. BEYER, Individually and as Superintendent of Trenton State Prison; Elaine W. Ballai, Individually and as Special Assistant for Legal Affairs for the Department of Corrections; Anthony C. Turner, Individually and as Assistant Superintendent of Trenton State Prison; Willis Morton, Individually and as Assistant Superintendent of Trenton State Prison; James Barbo, Individually and as Assistant Superintendent of Trenton State Prison; Ed O'Doherty, Individually and as Legal Services Coordinator for the Department of Corrections; Vernon Johnson, Individually and as Policy Development at Trenton State Prison; Dorothy Washington, Individually and as Director of Professional Services at Trenton State Prison; Brigite Mitchell, Individually and as Executive Assistant at Trenton State Prison; Tom Johnson, Individually and as Director of Social Workers at Trenton State Prison; Charles Trautman, Individually and as Chief Deputy Keeper of Trenton State Prison; Douglass K. Heil, Individually and as Director of Education at Trenton State Prison; Ron V. Paice, Individually and as Assistant Supervisor of Education at Trenton State Prison; Patricia Singleton, Individually and as Librarian at Trenton State Prison; Gary Sheppard, Individually and as Disciplinary Hearing Officer for Department of Corrections; Robert Makarski, Individually and as Disciplinary Hearing Officer for Department of Corrections; Woodward (First name unknown), Individually and as Disciplinary Hearing Officer for Department of Corrections; Fred Zimmer, Individually and as a Guard Captain at Trenton State Prison; R. Rea, Individually and as a Guard Captain at Trenton State Prison; Anthony Kubala, Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Parham (First name unknown), Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Barney Dyrnes, Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Holvey (First name unknown), Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Harris (First name unknown), Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Averhart (First name unknown), Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Williams (First name unknown), Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; Inman (First name unknown), Individually and as a Guard at Trenton State Prison; their agents and successors in office, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Kahn, Dept. of Law and Public Safety, Div. of Law, Trenton, N.J., for appellants.

Emmitt Valentine, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Victor Parker, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Abdallah Khaliq, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

James F. Fornino, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Louis P. Wright, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Herbert Lee Smith, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Allen Rodziewicz, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Clifford D. Roberts, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Ronald E. Long, Sr., Trenton State Prison, Trenton, N.J., pro se.

Before MANSMANN, HUTCHINSON, and HUNTER, Circuit Judges.


Submitted Under Third Circuit Rule 12(6) March 4, 1988.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.

Inmates at Trenton State Prison, New Jersey's highest security state prison, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action against prison officials, challenging the adequacy of the prison's legal assistance program. While the action was pending, the prison administration attempted to implement proposed changes to the existing legal assistance...

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