Chapman v. Wyo. Dep't of Corr.
Decision Date | 15 January 2016 |
Docket Number | No. S–15–0112.,S–15–0112. |
Citation | 366 P.3d 499 |
Parties | John Leslie CHAPMAN, Appellant (Plaintiff), v. WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution, Robert O. Lampert, Director, Steve Hargett, Warden, Kelli Dolan, CPL Property Officer, Appellees (Defendants). |
Court | Wyoming Supreme Court |
Representing Appellant: Pro se.
Representing Appellees: Peter K. Michael, Attorney General; John D. Rossetti, Deputy Attorney General; Jackson M. Engels, Assistant Attorney General.
Before BURKE, C.J., and HILL, DAVIS, and FOX, JJ., and SKAR, D.J.
[¶ 1] Appellant, John Chapman, seeks review of an order of the district court disposing of his civil claims through the granting of summary judgment in favor of Defendants/Appellees, Wyoming Department of Corrections, Robert O. Lampert, Steve Hargett, and Kelli Dolan, CPL, who will collectively be referred to as "DOC." We affirm.
[¶ 2] Chapman raises six issues which the DOC rephrased to more closely reflect Chapman's arguments and to be consistent with the civil actions resolved by the district court. We restate the issues as follows:
[¶ 3] On July 24, 2013, Chapman filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action in the district court for Goshen County asserting four constitutional claims based on the First, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and one state law claim of negligence. Appellant's claims allege that while he was an inmate in the state of Wyoming, under the supervision and control of the DOC, he was deprived of his personal property when penitentiary staff confiscated three televisions at different times; that the DOC violated his right to due process and that the deprivation of property caused him injury for which he is entitled to damages; and that he was wrongfully deprived of his property through the negligence of the DOC. Appellees provide the following timeline of events leading up to, and forming the basis of, Chapman's allegations:
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