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Dismissal of Legal Mail and Retaliation Claims Reversed

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News December, 2002, page 24
Filed under: Retaliation for Litigating, Attorney Client, Court Access, Legal Mail. Location: South Dakota.
by Matthew T. Clarke

The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reversed the district court's dismissal of claims that prison officials violated a prisoner's right of access to courts and retaliated against him for litigating against them.

William R. Cody, a South Dakota state prisoner, filed suit in ...

 

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