SIMPSON v. COUNTY OF CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI

No. 16-3682.

879 F.3d 273 (2018)

Cheryl SIMPSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, Defendant-Appellee

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: January 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Keith Hill , MISSOURI STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER, Gillian R. Wilcox , ACLU OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION, Kansas City, MO, Anthony E. Rothert , Jessie M. Steffan , AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI, Saint Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Albert M. Spradling, III , SPRADLING & SPRADLING, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before LOKEN, ARNOLD, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


Cheryl Simpson brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the County of Cape Girardeau, Missouri ("Cape Girardeau"), alleging that the Cape Girardeau County Jail's postcard-only incoming-mail policy for non-privileged mail violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by impermissibly restricting her...

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