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California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 22
Holding that the action was not time-barred and otherwise stated an actionable claim, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se action which claimed that California state prisons practiced racial segregation in housing prisoners. The Court upheld the dismissal ...
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Civil Procedure,
Limitations,
Conspiracy (Civil Procedure),
Telephone Rates.
Location:
California.
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