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AMATEL v. RENO

Civil Action Nos. 96-2774(SS), 96-2790(SS), 97-00475(SS).

975 F.Supp. 365 (1997)

Joseph AMATEL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Janet RENO, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Amatel, Pro Se, Marjorie Lynn Rifkin, Margaret Winter, Nat'l. Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation, Washington, DC, for Joseph Amatel.

Lee Alphonso Moore, Pro Se, Marjorie Lynn Rifkin, Margaret Winter, Nat'l. Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation, Ann Mary Kappler, Jenner & Block, for Lee Alphonso Moore.

Daniel J. Levitan, Pro Se.

Vincent Morgan Garvey, David Otto Buchholz, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

SPORKIN, District Judge.

These consolidated cases involve First Amendment challenges to Section 614 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1997, Pub.L. No. 104-208, § 614, 110 Stat. 3009 (Sept. 30, 1996), which prohibits the Federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") from using federal funds to "distribute or make available" to prisoners "commercially published information or material" known to be "sexually explicit or featur[ing] nudity...

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