Raymond Leahy, Appellant v. John Conant and Clare Sullivan, Appellees.

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for two prison superintendents in a prisoner's challenge to a former policy restricting prisoner-to-prisoner mail. It held that the superintendents were protected by qualified immunity because no clearly established law would have alerted reasonable officials that the policy required a religious exception, and that the declaratory-relief claim became moot after the policy was rescinded and replaced. The court also upheld the superior court's handling of the prisoner's pro se filings and declined to consider his prevailing-party argument because it was not preserved.