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Sixth Circuit Orders Retrial of Retaliation Suit
Loaded on July 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2000, page 14
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Work Release,
Transfers,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Retaliatory Discipline,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Jury Instructions.
Location:
Michigan.
The Sixth Circuit court of appeals has ordered the retrial of a lawsuit by the surviving mother of a deceased ex-prisoner against a guard who allegedly retaliated against her son because the mother requested the guard's name and badge number.
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