John James Sherman v. Ellis MacDougall

How courts have described this case

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• discussing procedures that must accompany prison censorship of legal and personal mail
• court refused to address issue of whether mail from attorney may be opened and read out of presence of inmate
• where revised prison censorship regulations provided due process, no reason to order additional remedy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Champagne v. Commissioner of Correction
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-07-11· cited 36×
• Nakao v. Rushen
  N.D. California· 1982-07-06· cited 19×
• Royse v. Superior Court
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-02-21· cited 7×
• Witherow v. Crawford
  D. Nevada· 2006-12-28· cited 7×
• Campbell v. Sumner
  D. Nevada· 1984-06-11· cited 5×
• Burt v. Carlson
  C.D. California· 1990-10-12· cited 4×
• O'KEEFE v. Murphy
  E.D. Washington· 1994-08-08· cited 3×
• Chappell v. McCargar
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-10-04· cited 2×
• David Fierro v. Ellis C. MacDougal
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-12-15· cited 1×
• Russo v. Reyes
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-04-06

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 1,564×
• Joseph Taylor v. W. L. Sterrett
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-06-01· cited 122×
• Byron G. Smith v. Allan L. Robbins, Warden
  First Circuit· 1972-01-18· cited 57×
• Ernest Bach v. People of the State of Illinois and Peter B. Bensinger
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-07-08· cited 54×
• Staats v. American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-07-09· cited 46×