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PLRA Attorney Fee Restrictions Not Retroactive
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1998, page 13
A federal district court in New York held that the restrictions imposed on recoverable attorney fees by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA) do not apply retroactively and are not applicable to claims by attorneys retained prior to the PLRA's enactment for work performed after it took effect. ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Sanitation,
Strip Cells,
Attorney Fees (PLRA),
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Damages.
Location:
New York.
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