Merriweather v. Zamora

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• concluding that improper opening of four pieces of legal mail was “enough alone to state a claim”
• finding that sixteen instances of improperly opened legal mail were sufficient to state a cause of action
• “[O]pening properly marked legal mail alone . . . implicates both the First and Sixth Amendments because of the potential for a ‘chilling effect.’”
• denying qualified immunity for prison officials who allegedly opened and read legal mail outside a prisoner's presence
• denying qualified immunity for prison officials who allegedly opened and read legal mail outside a prisoner’s presence
• “[O]pening properly marked legal mail alone, without doing more, implicates both the First and Sixth Amendments because of the potential for a chilling effect.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).