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No Waiver of Witness Fees for IFP Litigants
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1993, page 4
Bobby Dixon is a California state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that he was denied adequate medical treatment by prison officials. The case went to trial before a magistrate judge who granted the defendants' motion for a directed verdict. The ninth circuit court of appeals affirmed the ...
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