Lewis v. Stephens

ORDER

Staff at the Columbia Correctional Institution strip searched Richard Lewis after he threatened self-harm. He then brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing that prison officials violated the Fourth and Eighth Amendments during the search. He challenges the entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendant who ordered the search, and the denial of his request for counsel at the trial of his claim against the defendant who searched him. On this record, no rational jury could find that the first defendant violated Lewis’s rights. And Lewis has not supplied us with a trial transcript,…