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Seventh Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Illinois Jail’s Denial of Legal Publication Without Notice
Loaded on June 5, 2019
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2019, page 54
Filed under:
Publications/Books,
Censorship,
First Amendment,
First Amendment, rights.
Location:
Illinois.
by Matt Clarke
On February 8, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it reframed a former Illinois jail prisoner’s lawsuit over denial of a legal publication as a broad First Amendment challenge to the facility’s policy of prohibiting prisoners from receiving ...
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