Legal Opinion
Prison Legal News v. Livingston
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 1, 2012No. 11-40128PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
Prison Legal News (“PLN”), a non-profit corporation, brought this § 1983 action against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”) and three individual TDCJ officials (with TDCJ, the “Defendants”) for alleged First Amendment and due process violations in connection with TDCJ’s censorship of five books PLN wishes to distribute to inmates in the Texas prison system. The district court granted summary judgment to the Defendants, and we now AFFIRM.
FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
1. TDCJ’s BooB-Review Procedures
As part of a comprehensive system of processing mail…
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