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Summary: United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit _ No. 18-2743 _ Sam Edward Thurmond, Sr. lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant v. Tim Ryals, Sheriff, Faulkner County Detention Facility; Gary Andrews, Lieutenant, Faulkner County Detention Facility; C. Reedmiller, Captain, Faulkner County Detention Facility lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees _ Appeal from United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock _ Submitted: March 29, 2019 Filed: April 8,
Summary: United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit _ No. 18-2743 _ Sam Edward Thurmond, Sr. lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant v. Tim Ryals, Sheriff, Faulkner County Detention Facility; Gary Andrews, Lieutenant, Faulkner County Detention Facility; C. Reedmiller, Captain, Faulkner County Detention Facility lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees _ Appeal from United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock _ Submitted: March 29, 2019 Filed: April 8, 2..
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United States Court of Appeals
For the Eighth Circuit
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No. 18-2743
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Sam Edward Thurmond, Sr.
lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant
v.
Tim Ryals, Sheriff, Faulkner County Detention Facility; Gary Andrews,
Lieutenant, Faulkner County Detention Facility; C. Reedmiller, Captain, Faulkner
County Detention Facility
lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees
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Appeal from United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
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Submitted: March 29, 2019
Filed: April 8, 2019
[Unpublished]
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Before BENTON, BOWMAN, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Arkansas inmate Sam Thurmond appeals the
district court’s1 adverse grant of summary judgment on his access-to-courts claim.
Upon careful de novo review, we conclude the district court did not err in its
summary judgment decision. See Odom v. Kaizer,
864 F.3d 920, 921 (8th Cir. 2017)
(standard of review); Hartsfield v. Nichols,
511 F.3d 826, 831-32 (8th Cir. 2008) (“To
prove a violation of the right of meaningful access to the courts, a prisoner must
establish the state has not provided an opportunity to litigate a claim challenging the
prisoner’s sentence or conditions of confinement in a court of law, which resulted in
actual injury, that is, the hindrance of a nonfrivolous and arguably meritorious
underlying legal claim.”).
Accordingly, we affirm the judgment. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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The Honorable Brian S. Miller, Chief Judge, United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Arkansas, adopting the proposed findings and
recommendations of the Honorable Jerome T. Kearney, United States Magistrate
Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
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