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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C. A. 4th Cir. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed informa pauperis denied. Petitioner is allowed until January 27, 1997, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.