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Farmer Remanded Again, for Discovery
Loaded on April 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1997, page 16
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held a district court erred in dismissing a case without allowing the plaintiff to conduct discovery in order to oppose the defendants' motion for summary judgment. In doing so the court gives a detailed discussion of the relation between discovery, compelling discovery ...
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Summary Judgment,
Discovery,
Transgender,
Failure to Protect (Transgender).
Location:
Wisconsin.
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