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PLN Loses Florida Writer Pay Ban/Censorship
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 29
Lawsuit: Appeal Pending
Filed under:
Costs,
Royalties,
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations,
Due Process,
Media,
PLN Litigation,
Prisoner Media.
Location:
Florida.
by David M. Reutter
A Florida federal district court has held that PLN has not suffered, and is not currently suffering, a significant First Amendment injury from Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) rule, policies, or procedures that ban compensation to prisoner writers and caused the impoundment of …
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