Legal Opinion
Hatfield v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2002No. 01-11364PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Wayne Scott appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for summary judgment. We reverse and remand.
I. Background.
Appellee Gary Lee Hatfield is an inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”) who, as a prisoner since September 1997, opened an inmate trust account to be able to make purchases in the prison commissary. Inmates are not allowed to carry cash for that purpose, or any other.
These individual trust accounts are centrally managed by TDCJ’s Inmate Trust Fund Department. They are used solely for the purpose of allowing…
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