United States Fourth Circuit

In prisoner's civil rights action alleging a First Amendment violation from prison's policy barring inmates from receiving publications via mail, appeal from summary judgment for defendant is dismissed as moot where plaintiff has been released from prison and the ban no longer applies to him.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2007
• Published 10/29/2007

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, DUNCAN, Circuit Judge, and T.S. ELLIS, III, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Alexander Schwartz, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Andrew Frederick Lindemann, Davidson, Morrison & Lindemann, P.A., Columbia, S.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Justin S. Antonipillai, C. Ezekiel Ross, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.