United States Fifth Circuit

In an action brought by a former inmate detained (for about 7 months) following Hurricane Katrina alleging violations of plaintiff's First Amendment right to access the courts and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed where the undisputed evidence showed that defendant-warden neither violated plaintiff's right of access to the courts nor violated any clearly established law in connection with the detention.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2010
• Published 06/22/2010

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel