White v. Kautzky

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a prisoner alleging denial of access to the courts must establish an actual injury
• affirming the district court’s dismissal when the plaintiff only alleged that he was prevented from filing because he did not know what arguments to make
• explaining to prove an actual injury an inmate must demonstrate his non-frivolous legal claim was frustrated or impeded
• first citing Harbury, 536 U.S. at 413; and then citing Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 351, 353, 355 (1996)
• “Because the actual injury requirement concerns the prisoner’s standing to bring a claim, and thus our jurisdiction, and because we avoid unnecessarily deciding constitutional issues, we will first consider whether [the plaintiff] suffered any actual injury.”
• two-year statute of limitations applies to § 1983 actions in Iowa

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).