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Indigence is Cause to Retax Costs
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 27
The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a district court abused its discretion in denying a motion to retax costs when the losing plaintiff was indigent and the effect of taxing costs against the plaintiff would chill future civil rights claimants. This non prison case arose when ...
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