United States Ninth Circuit

The Washington Department of Corrections's ban on non-subscription bulk mail and catalogs is not rationally related to a legitimate penological interest, and is therefore unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2004
• Decided 02/01/2005
• Published 02/01/2005

Judges

• ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge., Before: ALARCÓN, W. FLETCHER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph E. Bringman, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, for amicus American Civil Liberties Union of Washington., Steven R. Powers, Office of the Oregon Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the amicus.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shannon Elizabeth Inglis and Carol A. Murphy, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Olympia, WA, for the defendants-appellants., Jesse Andrew Wing, Timothy K. Ford, MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.