The Ninth Circuit breathed new life to a First Amendment challenge against a Washington prison from a publisher alleging the jail prevented inmates from having a copy of its book and other legal materials.
Two officials at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center may have violated publisher Human Rights Defense Center Inc.'s First Amendment rights by delaying delivery of “The Habeas Citebook” to inmates, Judge Danielle J. Forrest said Thursday. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversed a ruling granting prison officials qualified immunity and reversed a denial of a motion for a permanent injunction on the prison’s ...