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Dismissal of Suit for Not Attending Deposition Reversed
Loaded on May 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1996, page 14
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a prisoner appearing at a deposition hearing, but refusing to testify, was not a "failure to appear" within the meaning of Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(d). Robert Estrada, a California state prisoner, had filed suit against various prison officials for assault and destruction ...
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