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HUMAN RIGHTS DEF. CTR. v. SW. VA. JAIL AUTHORITY

Case No. 1:18CV00013.

396 F.Supp.3d 607 (2019)

HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AUTHORITY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

Signed June 5, 2019.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Cause: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights Act
Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other
Source: PACER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean M. Douglass and Thomas S. Chapman, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., and Daniel Marshall, Human Rights Defense Center, Lake Worth, Florida, for Plaintiff.

Nathan H. Schnetzler, Frith Anderson + Peake, P.C., Roanoke, Virginia, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

The defendant jail authority prohibited prisoners in its jails from obtaining magazines or other periodicals or from obtaining books unless the prisoner received prior permission to order the book in question. A prisoners' rights organization sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983...

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