-MAS MAYNE v. CLARKE, No. 2:2008cv05785 - Document 3 (D.N.J. 2009)

Court Description: OPINION. Signed by Judge Stanley R. Chesler on 7/6/09. (jd, )

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY BRADFORD IRAYNE, 578.B Th Civil Action No. 0b SPC) OPINION bI5Jz rAhui.t L,n UrKVtL CLARKE, Defendant. APPEARANCES: Bradford Ytayne, Pro 117 Wason Wheel Sparta, NJ Road Disoric: Judge CHESLER, Pla.tntiff, Albert C. Jersey, Bradford Mayne, was a prisoner confined at Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Bordentown, affidavit of indigence, this time, determinc whether mat icicos, oranten, pursuant to 42 C. S. C. P]ainti ii has not pc-id the filing fee, permission. to proceed in forma pauperis. At New at the time he filed This civil complaint which alleges ci his constituticnai rights, § 1983. the for Based c ¢n Plaintiff s this Court will grant his request. the Court must it and seeks review the complaint to should be- dismissed as frivolo ¢us or faLl ore to state a claim noon which or because i seeks monetary relief is immune from such relief, from oursuant to 28 risC relief may be a defendant w- c § 1915(e) (2). 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(internal citations orni :ted) Section 1983 Actions A plaintiff may have a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for certain violations of his constitutional rights. Section 1983 provides in relevant part: Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State subjects, or causes to be subjected, or Territory any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to- t. he deprivation of any riqhts, privileges, or immunities secured hy the Consti.tution and laws, shall ho liable to the party inivred in an action at law, suit an eon: ty, Ct other c-roper crc:ceecano for redress . . . . Thus, to state a claim for relief undc-r § 1983, allege, first, a plaintiff must the violation of a right secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States and, second, that alleged deprivation was comrri tted or caused by a pa rson acting under color of state law. 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XX) Cl) Hi ND to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law. to the courts is not, Bounds) however, unlimited. The right of access The tools [that requires to be provided are those that the inmates need in order to attack their sentences, directly or collaterally, and in order to challenge the conditions of their confinement. Impairment of any other litigating capacity is simply one of the incidertal (and perfectly constitutional) conviction and incarceration. (1996) Lewis v. consequences of Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 355 (emphasis in original) Moreover, a prisoner alleging a violation of his right of access must show that prison officials caused him past or imminent actual injury. (1996); Oliver v. Fauver, See Lewis, 518 U.S. 118 F.3d 175, 177-78 at 348 55 and n.3 (3d Cir. 1997). [There is no] abstract, freestanding right to a law library or legal assistance, [and] an inmate cannot establish relevant actual injury simply by establishing that his prison s law library or legal assistance program is suhpar in some theoretical sense. [T]he inmate therefore must go one step further an demonstrate that the alleged shortcomings in the library or legal assistance program hindered his Re efforts to pursue a [non-frivolous] legal claim. might show, for example, that a complaint he prepared was dismissed for failure to satisfy some technical requirement which, because of deficiencies in the prison s legal assistance facilities, he could not have known. 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