Van Lee Brewer, Van Lee Brewer and Claude Harris v. B. Wilkinson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that opening and inspecting incoming legal mail outside an inmate’s presence does not violate the right of access to courts
• holding no First Amendment violation for inspecting prisoner’s legal mail in his absence even though it violated prison rules
• holding inmates failed to state cognizable constitutional claim either for denial of access to courts or denial of right to free speech by alleging incoming legal mail was opened and inspected for contraband outside their presence
• describing the receipt of mail concerning the inmate’s legal affairs as guaranteed by the constitutional rights to due process and to petition the government
• discussing the applicability of Martinez and Turner to prisoners’ speech in different contexts
• identifying these two sources of the right of access to the courts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).