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PLRA Fees Don't Apply to Mandamus
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1998, page 13
The court of appeals for the tenth circuit held "that this circuit will no longer require mandatory fees under the PLRA for filing petitions for writs of mandamus seeking to compel district courts to hear and decide actions brought solely under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, 2254 and 2255. To the …
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