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PLRA Applied Retroactively to Filing Fees
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1996, page 8
The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) provisions requiring payment of filing fees applies retroactively to civil appeals filed by indigent pro se prisoners before the PLRA's enactment. The case involves four unrelated prison civil rights cases in which the prisoners …
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