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Individual Legislators May Intervene to Terminate Prison Suits
Loaded on May 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1999, page 10
Individual Legislators May Intervene To Terminate Prison Suits by Matthew Clarke
The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that, under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), individual state legislators could intervene in prison release litigation.
In 1972, David Ruiz, and other Texas state prisoners initiated class-action civil rights …
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