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Court Access May Require Counsel
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 21
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling holding that the right of court access requires either access to law libraries or the assistance of counsel only through the pleadings stage of civil rights complaints or habeas corpus petitions. The case arose from a …
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