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Dismissal for Derelict Lawyer Reversed

The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a district court abused its discretion when it dismissed, with prejudice, a prisoner's lawsuit as a sanction for his appointed counsel's dereliction. Tyronne Clofer, a Louisiana state prisoner, filed suit claiming prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical ...

 

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