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Automatic Stay Provisions
Loaded on July 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1997, page 10
After a federal district court in Michigan found the Michigan DOC guilty of contempt for not complying with prior judicial orders on the prisoners' court access and educational opportunities, see: Glover v. Johnson, 934 F. Supp. 1360 (ED MI 1996), the defendants moved to immediately terminate the consent decree under …
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