United States Ninth Circuit

A 1973 consent decree entered into by a group of inmates did not bar a prisoner's claim based on exclusion of incoming publications, and the prisoner has a constitutional right to a two-level review of exclusion decisions. Corrections officials are entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/11/2002
• Decided 05/14/2003
• Published 05/14/2003

Judges

• Before BROWNING, FISHER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Wanda E. Hofmann and Bruce L. Skolnik, Assistant Attorneys General, Tucson, AZ, for the defendants-appellants., Adam N. Steinman and Julia Parsons Clarke, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.