BENNING v. COMMISSIONER, GEORGIA DEP'T OF CORR.

No. 21-11982.

71 F.4th 1324 (2023)

Ralph Harrison BENNING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER, GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Margaret Patterson, Georgia Department of Corrections, Jennifer Edgar, Georgia Department of Corrections, Defendants-Appellees, Georgia Department of Corrections Inmate Email Censor, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: June 23, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Easha Anand , Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, San Francisco, CA, Ralph Harrison Benning , Wilcox SP — Inmate Legal Mail, Abbeville, GA, Robert Stanton Jones , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rodney H. Atreopersaud , Christopher Michael Carr , Meghan Robson Davidson , Rebecca J. Dobras , Tina Michelle Piper , Georgia Department of Law, Attorney General's Office, Atlanta GA, for Defendant-Appellee Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections.

Rodney H. Atreopersaud , Georgia Department of Law, Attorney General's Office, Atlanta GA, for Defendants-Appellees Margaret Patterson, Jennifer Edgar.

Before Jordan and Rosenbaum, Circuit Judges, and Schlesinger, District Judge.


An email, as the term itself implies, is a message, note, or letter sent by electronic means over a computer system. See, e.g., The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 582 (4th ed. 2009). The questions presented in this appeal largely revolve around how emails generated by inmates in the custody of...

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