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Pro Se Litigants Entitled to Litigation Costs
Loaded on July 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1991, page 4
Pro Se Litigants Entitled To Litigation Costs
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Overcrowding,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Costs,
Witnesses.
Location:
California.
Benton Burt was a pretrial detainee in San Francisco who filed suit under 42 USC, §1983 in federal court claiming he was confined under illegal and unconstitutional conditions. At a bench trial Burt won his case and $500.00 in damages. He represented himself …
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