Michael Charles Ward v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department and Thomas Minick, Sheriff

How courts have described this case

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• extending Bell to a “publisher only” policy for soft cover materials
• extending Bell to a “publisher only” policy for soft cover materials
• “publishers only” rule that restricted receipt of magazines reasonably related to legitimate interests in controlling smuggled contraband and saving staff resources
• “[T]he district court correctly granted summary judgment for [county-defendants] on the issue of whether [their] ‘publishers only’ rule violated plaintiff’s first amendment rights.”
• upholding constitutionality of prison’s ‘‘publisher- only’’ restriction on magazines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).