Russell Thomas Palmer, Jr. v. Ted S. Hudson, Officer

HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge.

Russell T. Palmer, Jr., an inmate of the Bland Correctional Center in Virginia, brought this § 1983 action against Ted S. Hudson, an officer of that facility, alleging, among other things, that Officer Hudson destroyed his property, in a nonroutine shakedown search. 1 The district court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment, reasoning that under Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 101 S.Ct. 1908, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981), the intentional destruction of a prisoner’s property is not a violation of due process, when the prisoner has an adequate remedy under…