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MAHERS v. HEDGEPETH

No. 94-1455.

32 F.3d 1273 (1994)

Ronald A. MAHERS; Stephen A. Stewart; Edward Black; Laurence Rex; Dale Reese; Michael Morris; Kevin M. Moeller; Kenneth Fry; Billy Joe Armento; Tom Sanders; Marcel Lepier; Richard Winemiller, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Paul HEDGEPETH, Deputy Warden at the Iowa State Penitentiary, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Hill, Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellant.

Jeffrey Lipman and Brent C. Bedwell, Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellee.

Before BEAM, Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Deputy Warden Paul Hedgepeth appeals a district court order holding him in civil contempt for the manner in which security officers at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) searched certain inmates' legal papers. Concluding that the district court punished Hedgepeth for conduct not clearly prohibited by the 1980 consent decree in Dee v. Brewer, we reverse.

I.

On March 17, 1993, ISP...

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