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New Hampshire Prisoner’s ADA Claim Survives Summary Judgment
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2008, page 42
The First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a New Hampshire federal district court’s summary judgment order that concluded a prisoner had failed to demonstrate prison officials violated his rights under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134.
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Disabled Prisoners,
Nervous System,
Americans with Disabilities Act.
Location:
New Hampshire.
While imprisoned at the New Hampshire State ...
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