Henry E. Walker v. Olin G. Blackwell, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The order is merely to direct that the warden not arbitrarily deny Black Muslims the right to read [the “Muhammad Speaks” newspaper], within the normal framework of prison rules and regulations, administration and security.”
• no special diet required for Black Muslims as exception to the general rule of prisoner retention of First Amendment rights due to security concern in serving meals after sunset
• right to receive religious literature and right to correspond with religious leader
• right to receive religious literature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).