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PLN Editor Settles Retaliation Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 9
In the May, 1993, issue of PLN we reported that PLN editor Paul Wright had won a reversal and remand from the ninth circuit court of appeals in an unpublished ruling, Wright v. Rebiero, a retaliation suit filed against Washington state prison officials. On May 6, 1997, the case was …
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Retaliatory Transfers,
Retaliation for Organizing.
Location:
Washington.
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