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Court Cannot Dismiss Suit if Partial Filing Fee Paid
Loaded on March 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1993, page 3
Autry Clark is an Ohio state prisoner. He filed suit against Ocean Brand Tuna claiming he bought cans of cat food from the prison commissary that had been re-labelled as tuna fit for human consumption. Clark became ill after eating the tuna. He filed suit in federal court claiming the ...
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