United States Ninth Circuit

Oregon Administrative Rule 291-131-025(6), which prohibits prison inmates from receiving bulk rate, third class and fourth class mail, is unconstitutional as applied to pre-paid, for-profit, subscription publications.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2001
• Decided 08/17/2001
• Published 08/17/2001

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PREGERSON, FERGUSON, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Margaret Z. Johns, Supervising Attorney, University of California, Davis, California (Brief);  Peggy Gibson, Certified Law Student, and Irene Feldman, Certified Law Student, University of California, Davis, California (Argued) attorneys for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kaye E. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, attorney for the defendants-appellees.