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DUAMUTEF v. HOLLINS

Docket No. 01-0041.

297 F.3d 108 (2002)

Duaut A. DUAMUTEF, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Melvin L. HOLLINS, Superintendent, and P. Almstead, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 18, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duaut A. Duamutef, Fishkill Correctional Facility, Beacon, NY, pro se.

Marcus J. Mastracco, Assistant Solicitor General, State of New York, Albany, NY (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: JACOBS, F.I. PARKER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, a prison inmate, brought this claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for damages against prison officials who he claims arbitrarily censored his mail in violation of his First Amendment rights when they placed a 30-day "mail watch" on him. Plaintiff has a history of disciplinary problems in the prison system and involvement in an organization that advocates the overthrow of the government and other "revolutionary" activity. Defendants...

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