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Serial Litigators
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1993
by Adrian Lomax
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1993, page 1
A recent Associated Press story reported that the state of Wisconsin is spending more than a million dollars a year defending lawsuits filed by prison inmates. The story identified two Waupun prisoners as "serial litigators," responsible for numerous legal actions. A state lawyer was quoted as saying the amount of ...
Filed under:
Court Access,
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
Frivolous Litigation,
Disclosure of Records.
Location:
Washington.
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