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Update on PLN Suit Against Nevada DOC
Loaded on Aug. 8, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2014, page 30
Filed under:
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Consent Decrees,
Publications/Books,
PLN Litigation,
Censorship,
First Amendment.
Location:
Nevada.
Update on PLN Suit Against Nevada DOC
Prison Legal News continues its efforts to defend its First Amendment right to communicate with prisoners in the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC). In 1999 the NDOC banned all copies of PLN, claiming the publication constituted “inmate correspondence.” PLN filed suit and was ...
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