   Proceeding pro se, appellant Charles Slaughter (also known as Umar M. Alikhan)

appeals the order granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants. We will affirm.

                                             I.

       In May 2007, Slaughter, an inmate of the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center

(“ADTC”) in Avenel, New Jersey, filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that

the defendants—staff and administrators of the ADTC—violated his rights under the First,

Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. He aired twoof his presence. He asserts that problems

with legal mail continued well after the implementation of changes to facility policy; that

legal mail, specifically mail from the Internal Revenue Service, had been opened before

delivery; that his legal mail had been distributed throughout the facility and has been read by

third parties; and that the facility had lost or misplaced his legal mail on at least one occasion,

causing him to miss a scheduled court date in Union County on an unrelated civil suit. He

filed numerous complaints addressing his grievances with legal-mail delivery.

       To the extent Slaughter is claiming denial of his right of access to the courts, he must

show an actual injury, such as the “loss or rejection of a legal claim.” Oliver v. Fauver, 118

F.3d