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HODGES v. COM. OF VIRGINIA

Civ. Nos. 92-0696-R, 92-0907-R.

871 F.Supp. 873 (1994)

Donald A. HODGES, Plaintiff, v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, et al., Defendants. Michael G. FLORA, Plaintiffs, v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, et al., Defendants. MONTCALM PUBLISHING CORP., Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Edward W. MURRAY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Roanoke Division.

December 19, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Glynn Flora, pro se.

Daniel Robert Bieger, Copeland, Molinary & Bieger, P.C., Abingdon, VA, Keith S. Orenstein, New York City, for Montcalm Pub. Corp.

Karen Lebo, Office of Atty. Gen., Richmond, VA, for Com. of Virginia, Mr. Beck, J. Phippin.

Mark Ralph Davis, Office of Atty. Gen., Richmond, VA, for Edward W. Murray, in his official capacity as Director of Dept. of Corrections of Com. of Virginia (VDOC), John Does 1-7, in their official capacities, such fictitious names being designed to identify those VDOC employees whose true identities are now unknown to plaintiff-intervenor, but who serve as (1) members of the VDOC Publication Review Committee, (2) Warden or Superintendent of Keen Mountain Correctional Center (KMCC), and (3) functional KMCC mailroom censor, R.J. Beck, J. Horton, R.A. Young, E.C. Morris, Ms. Summers.

Donald Arlis Hodges, pro se.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WILSON, District Judge.

This is a disposition of two actions filed separately under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by plaintiffs, Donald A. Hodges and Michael G. Flora, who assert that Keene Mountain Correctional Center's ("KMCC") publication policy, which restricts inmate access to sexually explicit publications, infringes upon their First Amendment rights. Hodges and Flora named the Commonwealth...

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