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· 1/3/2002

Timothy Hatten v. Joe White, Employee, Usp Leavenworth Justin C. Harsha, Employee, Usp Leavenworth A. Fekekte, Employee, Usp Leavenworth

Citations

  • 275 F.3d 1208
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 261
  • 2002 WL 10203

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding § 2680(c) applies when prisoner alleges officers detained property and mailed it outside prison
  • providing that, because an inmate was “allowed to send the property he could not possess in prison to a place of his choosing,” he was not unlawfully “deprived of the property”
  • finding there is a difference between owning property and possessing property in prison and where the prisoner “was allowed to send the property he could not possess in prison to a place of his choosing,” there was no deprivation of property
  • “A Bivens action may not be brought against federal agencies or agents acting in their official capacities.”
  • “A Bivens action may not be brought against federal . . . agents acting in their official capacities.”
  • “there is a difference between the right to own property and the right to possess property while in prison”

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Judges: Henry, Briscoe, Murphy

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