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NEWELL v. SAUSER

No. 94-35243.

79 F.3d 115 (1996)

Terry F. NEWELL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frank SAUSER; Lou Easter; Sharon Starr, Sgt., Disciplinary Committee Chairperson; Tom Reimer, Sgt.; Robert Hartzler, Officer of the Spring Creek Correctional Center; in their individual and official capacities, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Bodick, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellants.

Susan Orlansky, Young, Sanders & Feldman, Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, POOLE and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge:

Newell is an inmate in an Alaska state correctional center. He sued prison officials, alleging that they violated his civil rights by confiscating legal materials from his cell. The district court ruled that the officials were not entitled to assert a qualified immunity defense. They filed an interlocutory appeal.1 We affirm.

I. Background

Newell was a prison law librarian. He kept...

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