Younger v. Gilmore

holding that prison authorities must assist inmates in the filing of “meaningful legal papers” by providing either adequate law libraries or the assistance of individuals trained in the law | requiring California prison officials either to expand prison law libraries or to adopt another alternative to satisfy prisoners’ legal needs | invalidating prison regulation severely limiting law books in prison libraries because it denies reasonable access to courts, and noting that right to such access “encompasses all the means a defendant or petitioner might require to get a fair hearing from the judiciary” | state has constitutional obligation to provide law libraries to prisoners | retained right of access to the courts | review of adequacy of prison library collection