Legal Opinion
Hertel v. Miller-Lewis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 16, 2017No. 17-1192PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Tracy Hertel, a former Indiana prisoner, sued the warden and property manag*959er at St. Joseph County Jail after legal materials he had brought there were confiscated and then either lost or destroyed. The district court concluded that no jury could find that Hertel suffered an actual injury from the loss of his documents, and granted summary judgment sua sponte for the defendant jail officials. Hertel appeals. Because he has pointed to no evidence suggesting that he was prevented from accessing the courts, we affirm the judgment.
Hertel spent two weeks in the St. Joseph County Jail before…
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