No. 20-508

Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-10-16
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test
Key Terms:
DueProcess FirstAmendment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-12-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally revoked without a hearing or due process?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

ESTIONS PRESENTED 1) Can a prisoner’s lst amendment right to correspondence be totally “revoked” without a hearing or due process? This inclutied all religious mail, educational mail, and some legal mail while the prisoner was in solitary contingent 2) Should a state actor be granted qualified immunity for the mail block stated in question 1, especially when he wrote a false report to get that mail block? 3) Ifa person allegedly sends out unwanted mail, is there a “reasonable relationship” under the “Turner Test” to block all his incoming majl? 4) Does the “Turner Test” apply to outgoing mail? 5) Ifa prisoner in solitary saa has no access to religious gatherings, is it a violdtion to block all his incoming and outgoing lai mail? 6) Cana federal district court ignore a rule 56(c)(2) FRCP challenge to a motion for summary judgement? 7) If a letter forms the basis of a prison disciplinary report, and the prisoner disputes the contents of the letter, was his due process rights ‘oe when the prison refused to produce the letter at his disciplinary hearing, which lead|to 6 months of disciplinary solitary confinement? eee. EE LIST OF armed MICHAEL VAUG BRUCE DODD WILLIAM RICHARDSON MEGAN me |

Docket Entries

2020-12-14
Petition DENIED.
2020-11-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/11/2020.
2020-11-17
Waiver of right of respondent Michael Vaughn, et al. to respond filed.
2020-09-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 16, 2020)

Attorneys

Brandon Lavergne
Brandon Scott Lavergne — Petitioner
Brandon Scott Lavergne — Petitioner
Michael Vaughn, et al.
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent