Court Opinion

ID: 9495231
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:57:43.214756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:53.896147
License: Public Domain

SEDWICK, District Judge,
concurring.
I concur, but write briefly to elaborate on the point made in footnote 4; our observations regarding Whitmire’s and Ly-ster’s situation do not portend any particular outcome. This case is remanded for development of a factual record, because the existing record affords virtually no information. It does not show how prison visits are arranged or structured, where they take place, whether inmates from several cell blocks enjoy visitation rights at the same time, how homosexual inmates other than Lyster might behave in the absence of the challenged policy, whether an open display of physical affection between Whitmire and Lyster might affect other prisoners’ behavior even though Ly-ster’s sexual orientation were already known, nor any of the other facts that may bear upon why prison officials, exercising their discretion, decided to implement the challenged policy.