Sometime in 1982, a prisoner of the State of Arizona filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arizona Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants had violated his constitutional rights by failing to maintain ...
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Sometime in 1982, a prisoner of the State of Arizona filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arizona Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants had violated his constitutional rights by failing to maintain an adequate law library.
We have no documents from this case, but we know that the District Court ruled that the plaintiff had been deprived of his rights and ordered the defendants to maintain the prison's law library in a manner specified by the court. We know this because this case is referenced in the consent decree in Lewis v. Casey, para. I.L: "ADOC shall adequately maintain up-to-date collections in each law library of the materials and resources required by Wilkinson v. MacDougall, CIV 81-1397 (Jan 5, 1984)." See PC-AZ-0004-0009. We have no other information on the case.
Kristen Sagar - 09/24/2007
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