United States Third Circuit

In a suit challenging a Congressional ban on the use of federal funds to distribute sexually explicit material to prisoners, the district court erred in determining that the regulation was reasonably related to the legitimate government interest of rehabilitation without an adequate factual basis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/27/2004
• Decided 08/12/2004
• Published 08/12/2004

Judges

• COWEN, Circuit Judge., Before RENDELL and COWEN, Circuit Judges and SCHWARZER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vijay Shanker, (Argued), Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Appellant., Marc Ramirez, Allenwood LSCI, White Deer, PA, Appellant, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• August E. Flentje, (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Appellees.