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BROOKS v. BUSCHER

Nos. 94-1797, 94-1798.

62 F.3d 176 (1995)

Billy Joe BROOKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. Alfred E. BUSCHER, D.A. Riegel, Assistant Warden, Stuart Lakin, Joe Scribner, Keith Cole, Jeffrey Kidd, Billy Hewitt, Claude Willis, J.D. Vieregge, and Mike Gitcum, Defendants-Appellees, and Assistant Warden Shields and Garey J. Ahler, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Erwin (argued), Gary Mayes, and Bill B. Dorothy, Thompson & Mitchell, St. Louis, MO, for plaintiff.

Terrence T. Rock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Springfield, IL and Daniel N. Malato, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen. Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago IL, for defendants.

Before CUMMINGS and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and WALTER, District Judge.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Billy Joe Brooks is a prison inmate who wanted to use the prison law library. Because he was a threat to others, prison officials gave him only indirect access to the library. Brooks sued, claiming the limitations on access to the library violated his right of access to the courts. The district court entered judgment in his favor; we reverse.

I. Background

Billy Joe Brooks is a "circuit rider" in the Illinois prison system....

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