BLAISE v. FENN

No. 94-1769.

48 F.3d 337 (1995)

Paul Michael BLAISE, Appellant, v. George FENN; C. Heald; Donald Dressler; Mary Piper; Crispus C. Nix; Paul Hedgepeth; James Helling, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick E. Ingram, Iowa City, IA, argued for appellant.

Robin Andrew Humphrey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, IA, argued for appellees.

Before MAGILL, Circuit Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and LOKEN, Circuit Judge.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Paul Michael Blaise, an inmate at Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), appeals the district court's1 grant of summary judgment to defendants in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 right of access to the courts action. Because we find that the ISP's inmate mail regulation is facially valid and that Blaise suffered no actual injury as a result of the regulation, we affirm.

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