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Alaska Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s “Shy Bladder” Suit
Loaded on March 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2013, page 25
On August 31, 2012, the Alaska Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s paruresis (i.e., “shy bladder”) and visiting rule claims.Alaska state prisoner Loren J. Larson, Jr. suffers from paruresis, a condition that makes it physically impossible for him to urinate while another person is watching. ...
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