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164313P.pdf   03/30/2018  Charles Sisney  v.  Denny Kaemingk
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-4313
                          and No:  16-4480
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls   
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Benton, Circuit Judge, and Tunheim, District Judge] Prisoner case - Prisoner Civil Rights. In facial and as-applied overbreadth challenge to provisions of the State of South Dakota's prison-pornography policy, the court would first examine whether the policy was unconstitutional as applied to Sisney's in order to avoid the need to reach the claims of facial unconstitutionality; such an approach reflects the proper deference owed corrections officials and would permit the fashioning of more limited relief; the court cannot adopt the district court's as-applied analysis because it was error for the district court to resurrect and apply the prison's 2000 policy after it found the 2014 policy was facially unconstitutional; once the court facially invalidated the 2014 policy, there was nothing left to apply, given that South Dakota Department of Corrections policies supercede rather than amend previous provisions in their entirety; in light of this error, the best policy is to vacate the district court's order and allow the district court to reevaluate Sisney's as-applied claims based on the 2014 policy; only after the district court makes this determination, will the district court be able to decide whether and to what extent it is appropriate to consider Sisney's facial challenges to the policy.