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Opinion
Filed
Dec. 11, 1980
Case
Dreher v. Sielaff
Case status
Decided

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636 F.2d 1141 Robert H. DREHER, Director, Prison Legal Aid Project, Southern Illinois University, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Allyn R. SIELAFF, individually and in official capacity as Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellants. No. 80-1168. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued Sept. 23, 1980. Decided Dec. 9, 1980. As Amended Dec. 11, 1980. David Cassorla, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants. Richard J. Habinger, Prison Legal Aid, Carbondale, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees. Before CUMMINGS and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge. ** HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge. 1 This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court granting plaintiffs-appellees' motion for summary judgment and denying defendants-appellants' cross motion for summary judgment in an attorney access case involving inmates in a state institution. The district court entered a permanent injunction governing attorney-inmate access. 2 The Prison Legal Aid Project (PLA) 1 filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and their clients, prisoners at Menard, alleging a denial of civil rights under color of state…

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