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Supreme Court· 6/20/2002

Christopher v. Harbury

Citations

  • 536 U.S. 403
  • 122 S. Ct. 2179
  • 153 L. Ed. 2d 413
  • 2002 U.S. LEXIS 4647

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that the right of access to the courts “is ancillary to the underlying claim, without which a plaintiff cannot have suffered injury by being shut out of court”
  • holding that the plaintiff must identify the lost legal claim in his complaint, along with the potential remedy that claim sought to recover
  • holding that a prisoner must plausibly allege the loss of a 5 “nonfrivolous” or “arguable” claim
  • holding that plaintiff failed to state a backward-looking access-to-courts claim upon which relief could be granted
  • holding that the right of access is “ancillary to the underlying claim, without which a plaintiff cannot have suffered injury by being shut out of court”
  • holding that in backward-looking access-to-courts claim, 5 | “the complaint should state the underlying claim in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil 6 | Procedure 8(a

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Souter, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Thomas

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536 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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