Stauffer v. Gearhart, et al., No. 12-20195 (5th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 alleging that the automotive magazines that were confiscated from him while he was an inmate participating in the TDCJ Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) violated his constitutional rights. SOTP 02.06 prohibited participants in the program from having certain publications. The court affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment, concluding that plaintiff's claims for injunctive relief were moot because TDCJ has replaced SOTP 02.06 with a new version of the rule that corrected the deficiencies that plaintiff complained of and that plaintiff's claims for compensatory damages were precluded because he did not suffer injury in connection with his constitutional claims.
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