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Third Circuit Announces Rules for Appointment of Counsel
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1994, page 12
Harvey Tabron is a Pennsylvania state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming they had failed to protect him from attack by another prisoner. In the course of the litigation Tabron requested that the district court appoint counsel to represent him, order the defendants to provide him with free copies of …
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General),
Appointment of Counsel,
Civil Procedure,
Costs,
Depositions.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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