...fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate assistance from persons trained in the law." (Emphasis added; footnote omitted.) Bounds v. Smith (1977),...

...fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers...adequate assistance from persons trained in the law." 430 US at 828, 97 S.Ct. at l498, 52 L.Ed.2d at 83. The Court emphasized that while law libraries were...

..."the fundamental right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers...adequate assistance from persons trained in the law." Id. at 828; See also Younger v. Gilmore 404 US l5 (l97l) (per curiam). ATthough this Act requires that...

...reaffirmed Younger v. Gilmore in holding that North Carolina authorities must "assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate legal libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law."28 Courts have upheld "reasonable"...

...fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers...adequate assistance from persons trained in the law."" Petitioners conceded that prisoners have a fundamental constitutional guarantee to access to the courts....

...right." 133 In Bounds, the Court held that this right required prison authorities to provide inmates with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law to assist the inmates in preparing habeas corpus and civil rights claims. "This is not to say that...

...was "adequate, effective, and meaningful." 58 Specifically, it held that prisons must provide inmates with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law. Yet more recent judicial decisions—in particular the case of Lewis v. Casey—have greatly eroded...

...fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers...adequate assistance from persons trained in the law." In 1996, Lewis v. Casey (518 US 343) narrowed the Bounds decision by "limiting it to the right of access...

...fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers...or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law."11 Marshall was quick to note that "while adequate law libraries are one constitutionally acceptable...

...access to the judicial system and that this right 'requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers...adequate assistance from persons trained in the law', Bounds v Smith, 430 US 817 (1977), at 818 and at 828. 418 The Role of a Defence Office Some Lessons...