Richard Lewis Jones v. Maricopa County

51 F.3d 280 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Richard Lewis JONES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARICOPA COUNTY, Defendant-Appellee. No. 94-16640. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted March 7, 1995. * Decided March 10, 1995. Before: SNEED, POOLE, and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Richard Lewis Jones, an Arizona state prisoner, appeals pro se the district court's order dismissing his 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 action in which Jones alleged that he was denied access to the law library and to legal materials as a pretrial detainee in the Maricopa County jail. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 , and we affirm. 3 It is well-settled that prisoners have a constitutional right of access to the courts. See Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 821 (1977); Casey v. Lewis, 43 F.3d 1261, 1266 (9th Cir.1994). Under Bounds, access to the courts requires that prisoners have access to a law library or to legal assistance. Id. at 828. If the…