ALICE YARISH AND PACIFIC SUN PUBLISHING CO., INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS,
v.
LOUIS NELSON, WARDEN, SAN QUENTIN PRISON, DEFENDANT-APPELLEE
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The court denied the petition to enjoin the warden from enforcing a prison policy prohibiting press interviews with specific inmates.
A reporter and her employer sought to interview inmates at San Quentin State Penitentiary, challenging a prison policy that prohibited such interviews…
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PER CURIAM:
This case concerns the right of the press to interview inmates of the San Quentin State Penitentiary at San Quentin, California, and particularly those at its “adjustment center.” Alice Yarish, a reporter, and the Pacific Sun Publishing Co., her employer, petitioned the District Court to enjoin Louis Nelson, Warden, from enforcing Section 415.071 of the California Department of Corrections Administrative Manual. Reliance was placed upon the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Section 415.071 provides:
“Press and other media interviews with specific individual inmates will not be permitted.”
The District Court abstained from the exercise of its power to issue a mandatory injunction upon the ground that the same issues were then before a California state appellate court in which the petitioners had chosen to initiate their cause. Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). It dismissed the petition without prejudice.
An appeal was taken to this court, the matter argued and submission for decision was deferred pending a resolution of the same question by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision of that case was delivered on June 24, 1974, in Pell v. Procunier and Procurer v. Hillery, 417 U.S. 817, 94 S.Ct. 2800, 41 L.Ed.2d 495. Having been invited to submit their views of the appeal in the light of those decisions, counsel did so and this case was taken under submission on August 10,1974.
The petition is denied upon the authority of those decisions. See also, Saxbe v. Washington Post Co., 417 U.S. 843, 94 S.Ct. 2811, 41 L.Ed.2d 514 (1974); Seattle-Tacoma Newspaper Guild, Local 82 v. Parker, 480 F. 2d 1062 (9th Cir.-1973).
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- Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (U.S. 1971)
- Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817 (U.S. 1974)
- Saxbe v. Wash. Post Co., 417 U.S. 843 (U.S. 1974)
- Seattle-Tacoma Newspaper Guild v. Parker, 480 F.2d 1062 (9th Cir. 1973)