Cases on California censorship
Here is a copy of the complaint [against Scott Kelnan and CDCR for censorship]. Now I wait for the judge magistrate to review my complaint. Everything is in order there, but who knows how long it’ll take for the court clerk to respond with further instructions. I’m also preparing to file a preliminary injunction or a request for one anyway, so that you can resume sending MIM Notes and other materials or whatever until the judge decides to hear us. However, once again many people seem to think its a long shot. I’ll try anyway. I did find a similar case however where the federal judge did grant the injunction, so it might not be such a long shot after all.
All of these cases below are good law for reference in the fight against censorship:
Clement v California Dept of Corrections, 364, F3d, 1148
Prison Legal
News v Cook, F3d 1145
Martin v Kelly F2d 236
Rios v Cane, F2d
1032
Hall v Cullan, 818, F2d, 1040
Abdul Wali v Coughlin, 754 F2d,
1015
Ashker v California Dept of Corrections 350, F3d, 917
Shakur
v Selsky, 391, F3d, 106
Sometimes I feel as if I’m in over my head with all this, but the longer this goes on, the more confident I become.
I may have inadvertently found a few more cases to back us up while I was looking for cases to cite on the request for the preliminary injunction. I won’t know for sure until I go back to the law library, and I’m not sure when that might be since there was an incident today and we might be on lockdown.
I asked the library if I could be eligible for PLU status, so as to get to the library more often and do research, being that I’ve filed with the district court already. She showed me a copy of this facility’s “Operational Manual” that states that civil actions are not granted PLU status. So that’s a roadblock right there as if there weren’t enough already. I’ll see if I can do anything about it, but I doubt it.