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CBCC Publisher Only Rule Upheld on Qualified Immunity Grounds
Loaded on April 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1992, page 6
Martin Johnson was a federal prisoner sent to the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Washington state as a boarder. He filed suit challenging numerous aspects of prison conditions under the due process clause of the federal constitution. The district court in Seattle dismissed the suit on motion by the ...
Filed under:
Transfers,
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
Photocopies,
Injunctions,
Qualified Immunity,
Mail,
Publications/Books.
Location:
Washington.
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