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U.S. S.Ct. to Hear Prison and Parole Cases
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1994, page 9
The 1994-95 term of the United States Supreme Court began on October 3, 1994. Among the cases scheduled for hearing by the Supreme Court are two cases previously reported in PLN which will have wide ranging effect.California Department of Corrections v. Morales, 93-1462, is the state's appeal from the …
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