Legal Opinion
Scott Nordstrom v. Charles Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 11, 2014No. 12-15738PublishedCited by 1,305 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dissent by Judge BYBEE.
OPINION
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Scott Nordstrom is on death row in the Arizona State Prison. He alleges that when he sought to send a confidential letter—“legal mail”—to his lawyer, a prison guard actually read the letter, instead of merely scanning and inspecting the letter for contraband. He claims that when he protested to the guard that the letter was a confidential attorney-client communication and should not be read, the guard told him to go pound sand. Nordstrom’s formal grievances were denied on the stated ground that Department of…
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