Right of Access to the Courts

A recent U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, opinion on “whether the arbitrary denial by prison officials of access to materials the prison routinely made available to inmates for the preparation of legal documents consitutes a denial of an inmate’s right of access to the courts where it results in the loss of a legal claim.”

The plaintiff is an inmate in an Oregon state prison. Link to it from the Law Librarian Blog.