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Judge-Made Law
The plaintiff was urging a legal rule which you thought was wrong. I thought it was legally right, but very unjust, and I didn't want to apply it. So, I made up my mind to lick the plaintiff on the facts. And by giving him every break on procedural points, ...
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- Education as Crime Prevention: Providing Education to Prisoners, by Dan Pens
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Judge-Made Law, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- TCI Breaks 'Inmate Telephone System' Stranglehold, by Dan Pens
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- Motion for Seized Property Subject to PLRA Fee
- Attn: Lawyers in Prison
- Dismissal of Paid Suit Counts as a "Strike"
- Fifth Circuit Upholds PLRA IFP Provisions
- Mailbox Rule Applies to Trust Fund Statement
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- PLRA Doesn't Apply to Habeas
- Writs of Mandamus Not Subject to PLRA Fees
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- Former Warden Wins Suit Against TDCJ
- Washington 35% Law Struck Down, in Part
- $135,000 Award in Beating Affirmed, Municipal Liability Reversed
- Torture Info Wanted
- News in Brief
- Legal Material Confiscation May Violate First Amendment
- A Matter of Fact
- Alabama Jail Held in Contempt for Crowding
- Dismissal for Derelict Lawyer Reversed, by Arizona prisoner (name withheld)
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- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander (N.Y., The New Press, 2010). 290 pages., Sept. 15, 2010
- When Courts Get it Wrong: Clark v. Beard, May 15, 2008
- Breaking the Prison Habit, Aug. 15, 2007
- Prison Legal News at 15, July 15, 2005
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- Prosecutors Overrepresented Among Federal Judges, April 15, 2020. Judiciary, Criticism of Government.
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- Civilly Dead Prisoner Unable to Sue in Rhode Island, Jan. 12, 2020. Court Access.
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