Terrell Walters and Joseph Ganci, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. James Edgar

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1999-01-20

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POSNER, Chief Judge. This is a long-running class action (first brought in 1982, and certified as a class action in 1985) by inmates of the segregation wards in Illinois’ maximum security prisons. These inmates claim that prison officials have blocked their access to the courts in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as interpreted in Bounds v.…

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