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No Appeal Allowed in Louisiana Consent Decree Dissolution
Loaded on April 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1999, page 20
The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear an appeal to a district court ruling that dissolved virtually all consent decrees governing prisons and jails in the state of Louisiana because the plaintiffs did not file a notice of appeal in a timely …
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Appeals,
Consent Decrees.
Location:
Louisiana.
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