GIBBS

v.

GLADDEN, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (18 total)

• Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343 (U.S. 1996)
  …t vintage. The traditional, pre-Bounds view of the law with regard to the State’s obligation to facilitate prisoner lawsuits by providing law libraries and legal assistance was articulated in Hatfield v. Bailleaux, 290 F. 2d 632 (CA9), cert. denied, 368 U. S. 862 (1961): “State authorities have no obligation under the federal Constitution to provide library facilities and an opportunity for their use to enable an inmate to search for legal loopholes in the judgment and sentence under which he is held, or to…
• Sostre v. McGINNIS, 442 F.2d 178 (2d Cir. 1971)
  …40. The Court in Johnson v. Avery, 393 U.S. 483, 488, 89 S.Ct. 747, 21 L.Ed.2d 718 (1969), recognized that prison writ writers might occasionally menace prison discipline. See also Hatfield v. Bailleaux, 290 F. 2d 632, 639 (9th Cir.). cert. denied, 368 U.S. 862 (1961) (testimony of prison officials that rules restricting access to law books were designed to forestall aggressive inmates from dominating weaker ones). . A case of suppression would, however, require us to decide the relevance of such doctrine…
• Wright v. McMANN, 387 F.2d 519 (2d Cir. 1967)
  …access to the prison chaplain. We also note that the withholding of all legal materials from Wright for the first few days of confinement in the “strip cell” may be reasonable, Hatfield v. Bailleaux, 290 F. 2d 632, 637-638 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 368 U.S. 862, 82 S.Ct. 105, 7 L.Ed.2d 59 (1961), but withholding for 36 days materials such as the trial record that might be essential for the prosecution of a pending appeal seems dubious. These matters, however, are for the District Judge to determine after a…