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WALTERS v. THOMPSON

No. 82 C 1920.

615 F.Supp. 330 (1985)

Terrell WALTERS, Joseph Ganci, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Governor James THOMPSON, Michael Lane, Daniel C. Bosse, J.W. Fairman, Henry E. Cowans, Marvin D. Shields, Donald Cartwright, James Thieret, James Chrans, Michael O'Leary, Jim Edgar, and Peter E. McElhinney, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

August 8, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelly Bannister, Margaret Byrne, Bannister & Byrne, Alan Mills, Uptown Peoples Law Center, James P. Chapman, James P. Chapman & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Joseph F. Spitzzeri, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ill., Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Walters and Ganci are inmates in the segregation units of the Menard Correctional Center and the Joliet Correctional Center, respectively. They claim that defendants have denied them meaningful access to the courts. The focus of their complaint is two policies of the State Department of Corrections. First, plaintiffs allege that they have no physical access to their prison law libraries. Second, they...

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