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Legal News in Brief - 9th Cir. Amends LeMaire Opinion
Loaded on April 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1994, page 15
The Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit recently amended an opinion concerning the constitutionality of conditions in the Oregon State Penitentiary's (OSP) Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU). PLN reported the decision in Vol. 5, No. 1 (January, 1994). The court adhered to it's decision in LeMaire v. Maas, 2 F.3d ...
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