JONES v. McDANIEL

No. 10-16658.

717 F.3d 1062 (2013)

Christopher A. JONES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.K. McDANIEL; Mark Drain; Jackie Crawford, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 10, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley Walters (argued) and Jorge Nicolas Anwandter (argued), Law Students, under the supervision of Erwin Chemerinsky, Peter Afrasiabi, and Kathryn Davis, University of California, Irvine, School of Law, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Irvine, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Clark G. Leslie (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General, and Catherine Cortez Masto , Attorney General, Carson City, NV, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MARSHA S. BERZON and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.


OPINION

BERZON, Circuit Judge:

While incarcerated in Ely State Prison in Ely, Nevada, Christopher Jones wrote a letter to his fellow inmates, calling on them to work together in support of his class action lawsuit against prison administrators. Later, prison officials discovered the letter in Jones' cell and disciplined him for violating a prison regulation that prohibited encouraging disruption.

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