VAN DEN BOSCH v. RAEMISCH

Nos. 09-4112, 10-1408.

658 F.3d 778 (2011)

Frank VAN DEN BOSCH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Rick RAEMISCH, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Dennis E. Jones-El, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William Pollard, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 15, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott B. Wilkens (argued), Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Frank Van Den Bosch , Montfort, WI, pro se in No. 09-4112.

Ann M. Peacock (argued), J.B. Van Hollen , Attorneys, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees in No. 09-4112.

Dennis E. Jones-El , Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, Boscobel, WI, pro se, in No. 10-1408.

Jody J. Schmelzer , J.B. Van Hollen , Attorneys, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees in No. 10-1408.

Jerold S. Solovny , Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae.

Scott B. Wilkens , Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, pro se, for Amicus Curiae.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and PALLMEYER, District Judge.


PALLMEYER, District Judge.

These consolidated appeals present constitutional challenges to regulations imposed by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections ("DOC") on incoming prisoner mail. Frank Van den Bosch is the publisher of The New Abolitionist, a newsletter about the Wisconsin state prison system. After reviewing the March 2007 edition of the newsletter, Wisconsin prison officials concluded that its content posed...

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