Legal Opinion
Acevedo v. Forcinito
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided May 12, 1993No. Civ. A. 92-0172PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
RODRIGUEZ, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on defendants’ -motion for summary judgment under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. For the reasons set forth below, the court denies the motion in part and grants the motion in part.
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff, Jorge Acevedo, brings this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that defendants violated his civil rights during his twenty months of incarceration at the Cumberland County Jail. Acevedo, who is not conversant in English, claims that defendants denied him meaningful access to the courts by failing both to maintain an adequate law library and…
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