PRISON LEGAL NEWS v. LIVINGSTON

No. 11-40128.

683 F.3d 201 (2012)

PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a nonprofit, Washington Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brad LIVINGSTON, in his official capacity as the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Jennifer Smith; Ramona Creek, in her individual capacity; Sue Weeks, in her individual capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 1, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Charles Medlock (argued), Texas Civ. Rights Project, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rance Lamar Craft , Asst. Sol. Gen. (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Office of the Sol. Gen., Cynthia Lee Burton , Asst. Atty. Gen., Law Enforcement Defense Div., Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Lisa White Shirley , Simon, Eddins & Greenstone, Dallas, TX, for ACLU of Texas, Southern Poverty Law Ctr., American Booksellers Found. for Free Expression, National Coalition Against Censorship, Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, Terry A. Kupers, Don Sabo, Christian Parenti, and H. Bruce Franklin, Amici Curiae.

Thomas S. Leatherbury , Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Zeke DeRose, III , Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Just Detention International, Amicus Curiae.

Before DeMOSS, CLEMENT and ELROD, Circuit Judges.


EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

Prison Legal News ("PLN"), a nonprofit corporation, brought this § 1983 action against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ("TDCJ") and three individual TDCJ officials (with TDCJ, the "Defendants") for alleged First Amendment and due process violations in connection with TDCJ's censorship of five books PLN wishes to distribute to inmates in the Texas prison system. The district court granted summary judgment to the Defendants...

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