Case Name: Philip Gregory MADDELIN, Appellant v. Dennis LEVINGSTON, Executive Freeholder of Atlantic County; Richard Mulvihill, Department Head of Public Safety; Gary Merline, Warden of Atlantic County Justice Facility
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-08-21
Citations: 232 F. App'x 206
Docket Number: No. 07-1991
Parties: Philip Gregory MADDELIN, Appellant v. Dennis LEVINGSTON, Executive Freeholder of Atlantic County; Richard Mulvihill, Department Head of Public Safety; Gary Merline, Warden of Atlantic County Justice Facility.
Judges: Before: RENDELL, SMITH and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 232
Pages: 206–206

Head Matter:
Philip Gregory MADDELIN, Appellant v. Dennis LEVINGSTON, Executive Freeholder of Atlantic County; Richard Mulvihill, Department Head of Public Safety; Gary Merline, Warden of Atlantic County Justice Facility.
No. 07-1991.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted For Possible Dismissal Under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) July 26, 2007.
Filed Aug. 21, 2007.
Philip G. Maddelin, Delmont, NJ, pro se.
Before: RENDELL, SMITH and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Philip Gregory Maddelin appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, granting defendants' motion for summary judgment in his civil rights case.
Maddelin filed his complaint while he was incarcerated at the Atlantic County Justice Facility as a pretrial detainee. He alleged that defendants deprived him of his constitutional right of access to the courts when they closed the jail's law library and instead substituted a policy by which an inmate could request cases relating to the inmate's current incarceration.
As the District Court properly noted, in order to show a constitutional violation of the right of access to the courts, an inmate must show an "actual injury" as a result of the alleged shortcomings in the prison legal library or legal assistance program. Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 351, 116 S.Ct. 2174, 135 L.Ed.2d 606 (1996). Maddelin made absolutely no allegations showing that he was injured by the system in place in the county jail. The District Court thus properly granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment.
For the foregoing reasons, we will dismiss the appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2).