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Court Mail Is Legal Mail; Damages and Fees Upheld in Legal Mail Opening

by Dan Manville


The Sixth Circuit has held that mail from a court is entitled to First Amendment protection, which means that prison officials had to open legal mail in the presence of the prisoner to check for contraband. Sallier v. Brooks, 343 F.3d 868 (6th Cir. 2003). The court ...

 

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