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Gender Motivated Violence Act
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 24
In the December, 1994, issue of PLN we reported the enactment of the Gender Motivated Violence Act (GMVA), 42 U.S.C. § 13981 and suggested that prisoners and their attorneys consider using it in civil litigation for money damages. To date it does not appear that any prisoners have used the ...
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Gender Discrimination -- Men,
Shelter,
Federal Statutory Law,
Gender Motivated Violence Act.
Location:
New York.
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