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Law on Retaliation Well Established in 9th Cir.
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1995, page 20
In the October, 1993, issue of PLN we reported Schroeder v. McDonald, 823 F. Supp. 750 (D HI 1993) in which a Hawaii prisoner filed suit over a retaliatory transfer from a minimum to a medium security prison. The district court held that the defendants were not entitled to qualified …
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Retaliatory Transfers,
Retaliation for Organizing,
Qualified Immunity,
State Legislation.
Location:
Hawaii.
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