Legal Opinion
Bobby Ray Kines v. John Day
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 5, 1985No. 84-1425PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.
Bobby Ray Kines, an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Walpole, brought this Section 1983 action challenging the constitutionality of the prison’s “Publishers Only Rule”. The Rule limits the sources from which prisoners may receive reading material. The district court decided that the Rule did not on its face violate the First Amendment and limited trial to the question of the constitutionality of the Rule as applied. Evaluating the evidence on that basis, the district court held Kines’ challenge to the Rule as applied was not ripe for decision…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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