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Civil Rights Suit For Damages Against State Prison Officials In Individual Capacities
Loaded on July 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1990, page 2
Two prisoners filed a civil rights damage suite against state correctional officials, charging that they were denied due process because they were not given a timely hearing before being placed in segregation. The court noted that, under Will v. Michigan, 109 S.Ct. 2304 (1989), state officials sued in their official …
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