Akawa v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that 13 an inmate must establish he or she has suffered an “actual injury” where he or she 14 alleges that he or she was denied reasonable access to the law library
• noting that “there is no established minimum requirement for satisfying the access requirement”
• dismissing a Bounds claim in part because the prisoner \simply failed to show that the restrictions on library access had any effect on his access to the court relative to his personal restraint petition\ (emphases in original)
• dismissing a Bounds claim in part because the prisoner “simply failed to show that the restrictions on library access had any effect on his access to the court relative to his personal restraint petition” (emphases in original)
• to state 22 a claim for denial of access to the courts a plaintiff must show his access was or will be 23 unreasonably limited and that the limitations caused or will cause actual injury
• claim for denial of access to the law library while in administrative segregation failed because plaintiff could not show that he was unable to file a brief or that he was unable to pursue a collateral attack on the underlying judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).