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· 2/14/1968

Wayne Hudson v. Kenneth L. Hardy

Citations

  • 412 F.2d 1091
  • 134 U.S. App. D.C. 44
  • 11 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 1298
  • 1968 U.S. App. LEXIS 8063

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  • prisoners may lack sufficient access to sources of proof needed to demonstrate the existence of a question of material fact
  • “[T]he requirements of the summary judgment rule may not fairly be applied ‘with strict literalness’ to a prisoner unrepresented by counsel and subject to the ‘handicaps . . . detention necessarily imposes upon a litigant.’”

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Judges: Bazelon, Wright, Robinson

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