PETRICK v. MAYNARD

No. 93-7062.

11 F.3d 991 (1993)

Rick Dean PETRICK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gary D. MAYNARD, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Oklahoma; Dan Reynolds, Warden of Oklahoma State Penitentiary; Billy Key, Law Library Supervisor, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 13, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick Dean Petrick, pro se.

Karin M. Kriz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, OK (Susan B. Loving, Atty. Gen., with her on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before SEYMOUR, ANDERSON and EBEL, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, we consider whether Oklahoma deprived a state inmate of his constitutional right of meaningful access to the courts by failing to provide requested legal materials.1 The Plaintiff-Appellant, Rick Dean Petrick ("Petrick"), an inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary ("OSP"), filed this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleged that OSP's inability to obtain specified legal...

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