· 3/9/2012
Munson v. Gaetz
Citations
- 673 F.3d 630
- 2012 WL 752372
- 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4960
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that No. 16‐1528 Page 4 prison administrators did not act irrationally by permitting access to some but not all books with same information
- concluding that prison administrators did not act irrationally by permitting access to some but not all books with same information
- finding that “[a] prison’s refusal to allow an inmate access to a book presents a substantial First Amendment issue”
- explaining that a prisoner’s claim that an alleged deprivation of a property interest in books is properly brought pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment
- finding that “§ 1983 liability ‘requires personal involvement in the alleged constitutional deprivation’” (internal quotation marks omitted) (citing Minix v. Canarecci, 597 F.3d 824, 833–34 (7th Cir. 2010))
- noting that liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 depends on personal involvement
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Judges: Manion, Rovner, Tinder
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