Juan Valdez v. Mark A. Rosenbaum Al Terrault Julie Latuska Bill Parker George Gore Debbie Miller Allen Cooper

In this civil rights action, Juan Valdez alleges that his constitutional rights were violated during his pretrial detention in the Alaska Cook Inlet Pretrial Facility (“CIPT”). Valdez was a federal detainee who was held in CIPT pursuant to an agreement between the state of Alaska and the U.S. Marshal Service. After he was convicted in federal court, Valdez filed this suit against Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark A. Rosenbaum (“Rosenbaum”) and various Alaska state officials and CIPT administrators (“state officials”), alleging that they had imposed unlawful restrictions on his telephone access during four- and-a-half months of his pretrial detention. Valdez invokes the Fust, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. We hold that there was no deprivation of Valdez’s constitutional rights and, therefore, affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment in the defendants’ favor.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

Valdez was the leader of a drug smuggling conspiracy that brought large amounts of cocaine into Alaska. He was tried and convicted in federal court of various drug trafficking charges and sentenced to thirty years in prison. This court affirmed…