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Economic Reality Applied to FLSA Claims
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1995, page 14
Prisoners' struggle to be paid the minimum wage for their labor has met yet another setback. Nevada statute § 209.461(1)(b) requires all state prisoners, not in segregation or with a medical excuse, to work or go to school forty hours a week. Walter Morgan is a Nevada state prisoner employed …
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- Civil Forfeiture and Criminal Prosecution as Double Jeopardy, by Jeffrey Steinborn
- Supreme Court Rejects Govt Inter-Locutory Appeals in Civil Rights Suits
- Editorial, by Dan Pens
- New Prisoners' Self Help Litigation Manual, by Paul Wright
- Live From Death Row, by David Gilbert
- How to Win Prison Disciplinary Hearings, by Paul Wright
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- Some Evidence Must Support Guilty Finding
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- Law on Retaliation Well Established in 9th Cir.
- Medical Care Ordered
- Attorney Fees Awarded in MCC Suit
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- Ohio Prison Activist Conference
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