Tenth Circuit· 3/29/1990

Smith v. Maschner

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899 F.2d 940
1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 4548

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holding that prisoner met this burden by showing that his actions were protected by his right of access to courts
holding that a prisoner could not assert a retaliation claim based on his \jailhouse lawyering\ for other inmates
concluding that an inmate's \complaint about undelivered catalogues fails to raise an issue of constitutional magnitude\
concluding that single alleged incident of a failure to deliver permissible catalogs 1 mailed to a prisoner was insufficient to amount to a First Amendment violation
holding that an isolated incident of opening protected legal mail, without evidence of improper motive or resulting interference with right to counsel, does not give rise to a constitutional violation
holding that “[t]he existence of an improper motive for disciplining a prisoner which results in interference with a constitutional right” gives rise to a cause of action under § 1983

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