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Federal Public Defenders Govt. Employees for FTCA
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1994, page 7
Joseph Sullivan is a federal prisoner who filed suit against the two federal public defenders who represented him in a parole revocation proceeding. Sullivan initially filed suit in federal court under the court's diversity jurisdiction. In a previous decision the seventh circuit had remanded this case back to the district ...
Filed under:
Attorneys,
Public Defenders,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Federal Tort Claims Act.
Location:
United States of America.
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