Legal Opinion
Hardy Brownell v. Robert Krom, Scott Mentnech, Ross Loucks, Richard Bivens, Roger Specht, and C. Ferrafola
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 3, 2006No. Docket 04-6364-PRPublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HALL, Circuit Judge.
Hardy Brownell, Jr., an inmate at Sha-wangunk Correctional Facility (“Shawan-gunk”) in Wallkill, New York, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that defendant corrections officers denied his right of access to the courts by intentionally losing his legal documents and other personal items while transferring him between correctional facilities. Brownell contends that the defendants’ failure to account properly for his lost legal documents has precluded him from filing a timely habeas corpus…
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