Proudfoot v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• finding violation to Proudfoot's constitutionally guaranteed access to the courts when a prison official opened and potentially read legal mail during a cell search
• opening and scanning outgoing attorney and court mail in presence of prisoner violates inmate's rights to petition, counsel, and court access
• “Searches [of prisoner’s cell] can only rise to an Eighth Amendment violation when they are conducted for ‘calculated harassment.’ ”
• “When . . . legal mail is read by prison employees, the risk is of a ‘chill,’ rendering the prisoner unwilling or unable to raise substantial legal issues critical of the prison or prison employees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).