Wendell Dale Lewis and Martin Hernandez v. Warden Woods

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

This case presents, in effect, two separate § 1983 lawsuits 1 that were never severed because they were handled in the summary manner permitted by our decision in Spears v. McCotter. 2 One claim is by a prisoner in state custody who complains that prison officials took a radio and amplifier from a fellow inmate to whom he had loaned them and never returned these items. His fellow inmate charges that the prison wrongly placed him in administrative segregation. We affirm the district court’s dismissal of the property claim because it does not state a violation of…