Scott Nordstrom v. Charles Ryan

OPINION

M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Scott Nordstrom, a death row inmate in Arizona state prison, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his claims that the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) policy and practice for inspecting inmates’ outgoing legal mail violates his Sixth and First Amendment rights. We hold that ADC’s current “inspection” policy does not satisfy the standard articulated in Nordstrom v. Ryan, 762 F.3d 908, 906 (9th Cir. 2014) (Nordstrom I), because the policy calls for page-by-page content review of inmates’ confidential outgoing legal mail. Further, the policy does not…