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Court Must Rule on Discovery Before Dismissal
Loaded on May 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1992, page 9
Court Must Rule On Discovery Before Dismissal
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Summary Judgment,
Complaints,
Discovery.
Location:
Michigan.
John Dean was awaiting trial in an Alabama jail when he got into a dispute with a former death row inmate awaiting a retrial. Dean was stabbed and slashed several times and had his head pounded into the concrete repeatedly. He filed suit …
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