Legal Opinion
Hammer v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 2009No. 06-1750PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
“[NJewsmen have no constitutional right of access to prisons or their inmates beyond that afforded to the general public.” Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817, 834 (1974). The Supreme Court applied that principle in Saxbe v. Washington Post Co., 417 U.S. 843, 94 S.Ct. 2811, 41 L.Ed.2d 514 (1974), when holding that the Federal Bureau of Prisons did not violate the Constitution by preventing face-to-face interviews between reporters and inmates.
In the years after Washington Post the Bureau authorized some in-prison interviews. By the late 1990s reporters could talk to…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Pearson v. CallahanSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Turner v. SafleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Bounds v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Wilson v. LayneSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
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3Cited by45 opinions
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- Turner v. PollardCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
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