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The Cost of Litigation
Loaded on March 15, 1996
by Arizona Reader
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1996, page 10
by an Arizona Reader
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Frivolous Litigation,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Consent Decrees,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Arizona.
In an era of prison bashing the focus on "frivolous lawsuits" rests fundamentally on those filed by prisoners. The question, "Why are the lawsuits necessary?", has yet to be asked, or answered. The turn-of-the-coin may, in a small but fundamental way, be illuminated in the holdings …
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