Rhodes v. Robinson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must resolve a legal quandary that only Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22, could have imagined: Do the exhaustive efforts of an incarcerated prisoner to remedy myriad violations of his First Amendment rights demonstrate that his First Amendment rights were not violated at all?
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Kavin Maurice Rhodes is currently imprisoned at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster, California. Proceeding pro se, he brings this § 1983 action against several correctional officers (“the officers”) at the California Correctional Institution (“CCI”) in Tehachapi,…
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