James G. Ellingburg v. A. G. Lucas, Correctional Employee, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an inmate cannot recover damages for defamation under §1983 “because a defamed person has not been deprived of any right, privilege or immunity secured to him by the Federal Constitution or laws of the United States”
• stating that an inmate cannot recover damages for defamation under § 1983 “because a defamed person has not been deprived of any right, privilege or immunity secured to him by the Federal Constitution or laws of the United 5. States”
• Arkansas state prisoner does not have 3 cause of action under § 1983 for being called obscene name by prison employee
• “ . . . a defamed person has not been deprived of any right, privilege or immunity secured to him by the Federal Constitution or laws of the United States.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).