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PLRA Attorney Fee Provision Not Retroactive to Pre-PLRA Services
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 7
The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of attorneys for Michigan women prisoners, holding; (1) that attorney fee provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not apply retroactively, (2) that prisoners were prevailing party entitled to attorney fees, and (3) that payment of both ...
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