No. 19-8008

Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-03-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights
Latest Conference: 2020-04-17
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, where the policy allows B.O.P. not to provide access to state lay material with state-sentence, trial material arguably which three prisoners ability?

Is the Fourteenth Amendment Right to the equal protection of the laws violated where federal inmate and state inmates are treated different in regards to legal materials made available to them in their respective institutions as a prisoners inability to access the state?

Is 28 U.S.C. 2241 a proper procedural avenue to challenge the Constitutionality of B.O.P. Policy?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour per week of law library access?

Docket Entries

2020-04-20
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
2020-03-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-12-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 15, 2020)

Attorneys

Jeremy Fontanez
Jeremy Fontanez — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent