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ALMOND v. DAVIS

Nos. 78-6273, 79-6132.

639 F.2d 1086 (1981)

Charles A. L. ALMOND, Appellant, v. Jack DAVIS, Director; Robert F. Zahradnick, Warden; Carl Atkinson, Assistant Warden; Sue Kennedy, Deputy Warden; Captain Bullock, Jr.; Sergeant Stroble; K. L. Woods, Appellees. Phillip Gray PATTERSON, Appellant, v. Jack DAVIS, Director of the Division of Corrections, individually and in his official capacity; C. M. Huskey, Chairman of the Institutional Classification Committee and the members of the I.C.C., individually and in their official capacities; Lieutenant Seay, Officer in Charge of C Building and Lieutenant Scites, individually and in their official capacities, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen K. Pirog, Richmond, Va. (Hall & Hall, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Alan Katz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen. of Va., James T. Moore, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

The only issue presented in these consolidated appeals is whether the prisoner-plaintiffs were denied meaningful access to the courts by the failure of the Virginia authorities to provide them with adequate legal assistance under the statutory program which was approved by us in Williams v. Leeke, 584 F.2d 1336 (1978), cert. denied, 442 U.S. 911, 99 S.Ct. 2852, 61 L.Ed.2d 276 (1979), as an acceptable alternative...

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