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Tenth Circuit: Dismissal of Prison Newsletter Censorship Case Reversed in Part

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2010 published in Prison Legal News February, 2010, page 45
Filed under: Injunctions, Mootness, Qualified Immunity, Mail, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Prisoner Media, Censorship. Location: Wyoming.
On July 16, 2009, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit involving the nondelivery of newsletters sent in bulk to a Wyoming state prison.

Derrick R. Parkhurst, a Wyoming prisoner, is chairman of the Wyoming Prisoners’ Association (WPA) and an official ...

 

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