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| Prison newspaper seeks to overturn Florida ban |
| By bizjournals.com |
| Published: 12/16/2015 |
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The publisher of a newspaper prohibited in Florida prisons is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a September ruling that upheld the ban, in a long-running legal battle over the publication. Prison Legal News, available to prisoners in every other state, filed an 82-page appeal — penned by former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement — in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week. Corrections officials have confiscated the publication for six years and changed their rules regarding censorship five times since the onset of the court fight with Prison Legal News, which first filed a lawsuit against the agency in 2004. The case was dismissed the following year after a judge ruled it moot because the department had promised to deliver the publication to inmates. But after adopting a rule that restricted publications containing certain types of advertisements, Department of Corrections officials again began confiscating the newspapers. Read More. |
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