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Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $550,307 in Attorney Fees and Costs in Unsanitary Conditions Case
Loaded on July 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2009, page 43
On December 30, 2008, a Massachusetts state court awarded a former prisoner $547,566 in attorney fees and $2,741 in costs and litigation expenses in a civil rights action in which the plaintiffs were awarded only nominal damages.
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Totality of Conditions,
Food,
Toilets,
Sewage,
Sanitation,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Civil Procedure,
Damages.
Location:
Massachusetts.
Stephen Doherty and ten other Massachusetts state prisoners filed a civil rights suit ...
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