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No Interlocutory Appeals in Decree Terminations
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 6
The court of appeals for the Sixth
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Consent Decrees (PLRA),
Appeals.
Location:
Michigan.
circuit held that it lacks jurisdiction to hear interlocutory appeals in motions to terminate consent decrees. In 1984 the United States sued the state of Michigan over unconstitutional prison conditions. The lawsuit was settled with a consent decree where the state of Michigan ...
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