In 1980, Sebastion Intersimone, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, filed a Section 1983 suit in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against prison officials. Plaintiff alleged deprivations of his First, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment rights because of interference with his mailing privileges and subsequent disciplinary actions taken against him for his attempts to mail certain letters.

Following cross-motions for summary judgment, the District Court (Judge Robert Dixon Herman) granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in part and denied in part. The court held that the limitation of plaintiff's correspondence to a pre-established list of individuals was an unreasonable and arbitrary infringement of his First Amendment rights, but allowed defendants to prohibit plaintiff from mailing correspondence to a juror named as a defendant in plaintiff's civil action. Intersimone v. Carlson, 512 F. Supp. 526 (M.D. Pa. 1980).

The docket for this case is not available on PACER, and therefore our information ends with the most recent decision, dated December 29, 1980.

Eoghan Keenan - 06/10/2005


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