PALMER v. HUDSON

No. 81-6967.

697 F.2d 1220 (1983)

Russell Thomas PALMER, Jr., Appellant, v. Ted S. HUDSON, Officer, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah C. Wyatt, Charlottesville, Va. (Wyatt & Rosenfield, Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Alan Katz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen. of Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge.

Russell T. Palmer, Jr., an inmate of the Bland Correctional Center in Virginia, brought this § 1983 action against Ted S. Hudson, an officer of that facility, alleging, among other things, that Officer Hudson destroyed his property, in a nonroutine shakedown search.1 The district court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment, reasoning that under...

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