33. Privacy.

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Brown v. Williams, 36 Fed.Appx. 361 (10th Cir. 2002). A state prisoner brought a pro se [section] 1983 action against prison officials, challenging the handling of his mail from his attorney and from a radio station. The district court dismissed the case and the appeals court affirmed. The appeals court held that the fact that a mail package sent by an attorney was never received by the prisoner, and that another package from the attorney was opened in the prisoner's presence by prison officials, did not amount to a deprivation of the prisoner's First Amendment right or his right to counsel or right of...