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California Ban On Sexually Explicit Materials Upheld
Loaded on June 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2006, page 36
The California Court of Appeal upheld the denial of a state prisoners petition for writ of mandate seeking (1) rescission of California prison regulation 15 CCR § 3006 (c) (17) [proscribing possession of explicit sexual images], and (2) a declaration that the regulation violated both the First Amendment and Penal ...
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