Greybuffalo v. Kingston

OPINION AND ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

This case tests the limits of prison officials’ ability to restrict a prisoner’s right to free speech in the name of security. Put more specifically, it requires the court to consider the question how tenuous the connection between security and a restriction may be before a court must conclude that the restriction has no logical connection to the asserted interest or is an exaggerated response to that interest, making it invalid under the First Amendment.

At the center of the case are two documents confiscated from plaintiff Johnson…