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Litigant Entitled to Summary Judgment Notice
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 5
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has reaffirmed that a district court which transforms a motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment by considering matters outside the pleadings must give the opposing party proper notice. Charles Anderson is a Nevada state prisoner and a minister of …
Filed under:
Summary Judgment,
Religious Freedom,
Denial of Religious Services,
Clergy.
Location:
Nevada.
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