Willson v. Buss.

• Position: FREE SPEECH, EXPRESSION, AND ASSOCIATION - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

PUBLICATIONS

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Willson v. Buss, 370 F.Supp.2d 782 (N.D.Ind. 2005). A former inmate sued a prison superintendent, claiming that a rule that denied him receipt of magazines having homosexual content violated his First Amendment rights. The district court entered judgment in favor of the superintendent. The court held that there was a valid, rational connection between the prison's ban on inmate receipt of "blatantly homosexual material" and that the ban furthered a legitimate, penological objective of protecting homosexual inmates from injury by the prison population which is traditionally hostile to them. The court noted that the...