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Nominal Damages Not Monetary Award Under PLRA Attorney's Fees Cap
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2000, page 13
A federal district court in Maine has held that the award of one dollar in nominal damages does not invoke the PLRA attorney's fees cap, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2).Raymond P. Boivin, a Maine state pre-trial detainee, sued a guard at Maine Correctional Institution--Warren under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for …
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