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Lawsuit against Oklahoma Jail for Providing False Information Partially Reinstated on Appeal
Loaded on June 30, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2017, page 60
On July 19, 2016 the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma reversed, in part, a lower court order dismissing a suit against jail officials accused of providing false and misleading information about a former defendant to a website that published the information online.
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