Prison Legal News v. Cook

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that due 11 process rights apply to withheld mail where prisoners had constitutionally protected right to 12 receive the mail
• determining that a ban on non-profit subscription publications “is not rationally related to the Department’s interest in rendering efficient cell searches”
• relying in part on unpublished district court decisions to determine the law was not clearly established
• considering how a prison regulation affected the 6 legitimate government objective of “not substantially deplet[ing] prison resources”
• the withholding of an inmate’s subscription newsletter must be accompanied by Martinez due process safeguards, including notice and administrative review
• “The Department has presented no evidence supporting a rational distinction between the risk of contraband in subscription nonprofit organization standard mail and first class or periodicals mail.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).