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Punishment for Rude Outgoing Letter Struck Down
The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit affirmed a lower court's award of nominal damages, injunctive relief and attorney fees and costs by holding that rude comments made by a Florida prisoner in his outgoing mail to his girlfriend are protected under the First amendment. The plaintiff wrote a ...
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