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Seventh Circuit Defines and Applies PLRA and AEDPA
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1997, page 8
In five consolidated appeals the seventh circuit held that for purposes of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) neither habeas corpus petitions nor petitions for mandamus in criminal proceedings constitute "prisoner litigation" and thus do not require payment of filing fees by indigent litigants. The court also held that prisoners …
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