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Guard's Intentional Destruction of Typewriter States §1983 and Texas Tort Claims
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 13
A Texas state court of appeals has held that a guard's intentional destruction of a prisoner's typewriter states a claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and Texas tort law.
Filed under:
Court Access,
Writing Implements,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Prisoner Property.
Location:
Texas.
Robert Gordon, a Texas state prisoner, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state tort law after a guard knocked his ...
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