Chriceol v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the Court is not bound by the reasons articulated by the district court for granting summary judgment
• explaining that the Supreme Court, in Lewis, “held that an inmate alleging denial of access to courts must demonstrate an actual injury stemming from defendants’ unconstitutional conduct.”
• finding no record evidence of an actual injury on summary judgment when the plaintiff successfully filed his complaint
• (citing Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 351-54 (1996)); Walker v. Navarro County Jail, 4 F.3d 410, 413 (5th Cir. 1993
• suggesting that inmate would have pleaded sufficient facts to demonstrate an actual injury had he alleged that prison officials’ delay in processing his request to withdraw money from his prison account to file a civil-rights complaint prevented him from filing the complaint
• “[A]n inmate alleging denial of access to the courts must demonstrate an actual injury stemming from defendants’ unconstitutional conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).