Christopher Barbour v. Michael Haley

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• noting that the prisoners’ claim that they had been denied meaningful access to the courts implicated both the First and Fourteenth Amendments
• providing that the actual-injury element requires the plaintiff to “identify within his complaint[ ] a nonfrivolous, arguable underlying claim” (alteration added)
• providing that the actual-injury element requires the plaintiff to “identify within his complaint[] a nonfrivolous, arguable underlying claim” (alteration added)
• noting that the prisoners’ claim that they had been denied meaningful access to the courts implicated both the First and Fourteenth Amendments
• noting that prisoners’ claim that they had been denied meaningful access to the courts implicated both the First and Fourteenth Amendments
• observing that “while Bounds clearly recognized the value that lawyers and trained paralegals might add to an access program for indigent inmates, Bounds nonetheless contemplated a legal access program that could meet constitutional demands without the provision of counsel”

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