Fitzgerald v. Circuit Court for Milwaukee Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “appointment of counsel can be a valid means of satisfying a prisoner’s right of access to the courts.”
• noting that section 1983 action not appropriate vehicle to bring Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim
• reaffirming that “the appointment of counsel can be a valid means of satisfying a prisoner’s right of access to the courts”
• “Appointment of counsel can be a valid means of satisfying the constitutional obligation to provide prisoners, including pretrial detainees, with access to the courts.”
• “[A]n ineffectiveness cause of action would be inappropriate in a proceeding brought under § 1983.”
• discussing the “various ... constitutional provisions” from which right derives

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).