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Pre-Litigation Attorney Solicitation Letters are Protected Legal Mail

Loaded on Jan. 13, 2016

Filed under: Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, PLN Litigation, Censorship. Location: Michigan.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction that requires officials at Michigan’s Livingston County Jail (LCJ) to deliver correspondence to prisoners marked “legal mail” from the ACLU.

That ruling came in a lawsuit the ACLU initiated after LCJ’s Administrator Tom Cremonte testified in PLN’s lawsuit …

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