Younger v. Gilmore

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that prison authorities must assist inmates in the filing of “meaningful legal papers” by providing either adequate law libraries or the assistance of individuals trained in the law
• requiring California prison officials either to expand prison law libraries or to adopt another alternative to satisfy prisoners’ legal needs
• invalidating prison regulation severely limiting law books in prison libraries because it denies reasonable access to courts, and noting that right to such access “encompasses all the means a defendant or petitioner might require to get a fair hearing from the judiciary”
• state has constitutional obligation to provide law libraries to prisoners
• retained right of access to the courts
• review of adequacy of prison library collection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).