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The UCC Goes To Prison

By firstamendmentblogger

Tim's dry wit makes the UCC seem far more appealing than I remember if from law school, and now a recent federal appeals decision makes me realize that I've got to start integrating more of the code into my First Amendment course.

In Jones v. Caruso, the Sixth Circuit declined to lift an injunction against a regulation that prohibited prisoners from receiving "UCC materials" in the mail.  What sort of penologicial interest could have prompted such a draconian measure?  Well, it appears that prisoners have been using the UCC as a way to harass law enforcement officers.  A prisoner in one case obtained a copyright of his name and then filed fraudulent liens against government officials who used his name without permission or compensation.  (its not right, I  know, but it is clever) . . . 

Anyway, Tim, even if the court had dissolved the injunction, your work would have been protected under a worthwhile exception for "legal materials which set forth the statute or provide a scholarly legal analysis of the UCC."

-Kathleen A. Bergin

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).