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WA DOC Enjoined From Taking Costs
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1994, page 11
Past issues of PLN have reported on the tactic seized upon by the Washington Attorney General's office to retaliate against prisoners who exercise their right of access to the courts, namely billing prisoners for the costs incurred by the AG in litigating [See PLN, Vol. 4, No. 6]. A party ...
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Costs,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
Location:
Washington.
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