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PRATT v. HURLEY

Nos. 95-3327, 95-3440.

79 F.3d 601 (1996)

Anthony PRATT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John M. HURLEY, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Oxford, Wisconsin, Defendant-Appellee. Anthony PRATT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Pratt, submitted on briefs, Chicago, IL, pro se.

Leslie K. Herje, Office of U.S. Atty., Madison, WI, for defendant-appellee.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Anthony Pratt, a federal prisoner, filed two Bivens actions. The first seeks damages for inadequate library facilities, which Pratt alleges deprived him of access to the courts, see Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 52 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977), by causing him to lose a state case. (Pratt says that the prison library does not have Wisconsin's rules of procedure in its collection, and that failure...

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