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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BERNARD WHITE,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-07-1218 LKK GGH P

vs.

DEPARTMENT OF THE

CORRECTIONAL EMPLOYEE

AD-SEG STATUS, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to

42 U.S.C. § 1983. On August 7, 2007, the court dismissed plaintiff’s complaint with leave to

amend. Pending before the court is plaintiff’s amended complaint filed August 30, 2007.

Named as defendants are Correctional Officers Rasmussen, Humphries and

McCusker. Plaintiff alleges that defendants violated his rights by refusing to issue his legal

property to him and grant him law library access.

The court construes plaintiff’s amended complaint to be alleging a claim for

violation of the right to access the courts. In order to state such a claim, plaintiff must allege that

he suffered an actual injury to his ability to litigate an action challenging the validity or

conditions of his confinement. Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 354-55, 116 S.Ct. 2174 (1996). 

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Plaintiff does not allege that he suffered an actual injury as a result of defendants’ conduct. 

Plaintiff does not allege how his failure to have access to his legal property or the law library

caused him to suffer an actual injury to his ability to litigate an action challenging the validity or

conditions of his confinement. Accordingly, the amended complaint is dismissed on this ground. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the amended complaint filed

August 30, 2007, is dismissed with thirty days to file a second amended complaint; failure to file

a second amended complaint within that time will result in a recommendation of dismissal of this

action.

DATED: 10/1/07

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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