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9th Circuit Upholds Ban on Sex-based Publications; Requires Due Process
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 32
9th Circuit Upholds Ban on Sex-based publications; Requires Due Process
Filed under:
Injunctions,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Consent Decrees,
Mail,
Publications/Books,
Sexually Explicit Materials,
Due Process,
Tapes/Music (Mail),
Censorship.
Location:
Arizona.
Against a First Amendment challenge, the Ninth Circuit has upheld a prison regulation banning sex-based publications depicting penetration. The Court also held that prisoners have a Fourteenth Amendment due process liberty interest in receiving a notice that incoming mail is …
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