Kenneth A. Marshall v. Stanley Knight

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a prisoner's right of access to courts is violated if the defendant's conduct prejudiced a potentially meritorious claim for relief
• holding that a prisoner's right of access to courts is violated if the defendant's conduct prejudiced a potentially meritorious claim for relief
• holding that the pro se plaintiff “should … have been allowed to add a retaliation claim based on his allegations about the adverse treatment he encountered after filing his original civil rights complaint”
• recognizing inmate’s access-to-courts claim based on reduced access to prison law library
• construing Lewis to “limit[ ] right of access to the courts to prisoners’ ability to attack their sentences, directly or collaterally, and in order to challenge the conditions of their confinement”
• “[O]nly if the defendants’ conduct prejudices a potentially meritorious [claim] has the right been infringed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).