Lomax v. Fiedler

This appeal tests, on constitutional grounds, a prison's right to discipline an inmate, Adrian Lomax, for violation of prison rules, based on the content of articles written by him and sent to a newspaper, THE Madison Edge, for publication and eventual distribution inside the prison. It involves consideration of the appropriate standards for courts to apply in reviewing prison-imposed restrictions on inmates' First Amendment rights, as well as a determination of the merits of Lomax's claim of a constitutional violation.

While the United States Supreme Court, in several recent opinions, has…