FOSTER v. BASHAM

No. 90-2069.

932 F.2d 732 (1991)

William Wentworth FOSTER, Appellant, v. Mary BASHAM, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 6, 1991.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Wentworth Foster, pro se.

Michael E.C. Pritchett, Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD, BOWMAN and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

William Wentworth Foster appeals from the District Court's order granting summary judgment to Mary Basham, supervisor of the mail room at the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP), in his action filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Foster claims that a prison policy of preventing access to the listings of attorneys in the telephone yellow pages prevented him from having meaningful access to the courts and to attorneys. The District Court held the policy was...

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