Paul Ivan Birzon, in Behalf of Morris Satz v. Edward S. King, United States Marshal and Hon. Michael A. Amico, Sheriff of Erie County

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• holding that the government may restrict parolees’ rights in ways that are “reasonably and necessarily related to the interests that the Government retains after his conditional release”
• holding that a term of parole prohibiting the defendant from “associat[ing] with persons who have a criminal record” did not implicate First Amendment rights
• noting that “the Government can infringe the first amendment rights” of prisoners and parolees “so long as the restrictions are reasonably and necessarily related to the advancement of some justifiable purpose of imprisonment”
• upholding parole condition placing limitations on the fundamental right of freedom of association protected by the First Amendment
• parole condition that parolee not associate with persons having criminal record or engaged in criminal activity, upheld
• parole board is “required to disclose to the parolee so much of the substance of the informants’ accusatory statements as it finds consistent with their safety”

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