Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

McDonald v. George Meany Center for Labor Studies

519 U.S. 1054

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1997-01-06
Topic
labor-and-employment

How later courts describe this case

  • setting forth the elements of an access-to-courts claim and the actual injury requirement
  • access-to-courts claim requires showing that the defendant’s conduct caused actual injury to a non-frivolous legal claim
  • prison officials must provide an inmate the tools to challenge his sentence or conditions of confinement, but the loss of any other litigating capacity is constitutional

Citator

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