U.S. Appeals Court: MAIL PUBLICATIONS.

Prison Legal News v. Cook, 238 F.3d 1145 (9th Cir. 2001). Prisoners and the publisher of a nonprofit newsletter brought a [ss] 1983 action against corrections officials, challenging a corrections department policy that prohibited prisoners from receiving standard rate mail (also known as bulk mail), including subscriptions to non-profit organizational mail. The district court entered summary judgment for the officials and the plaintiffs appealed. The appeals court reversed and remanded, finding that the ban on the receipt of subscription non-profit organization mail implicated the First Amendment interests of both inmates and publishers. The court held that the ban was not rationally related to the department's...