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VP's Drug Dealer Still Litigating Retaliation Claim
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2000, page 14
The court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit held that law-of-the-case doctrine foreclosed a challenge to a legal decision made at an earlier stage of the litigation and that the district court must determine whether government officials were motivated by improper intent before denying their motion for summary ...
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- Massachusetts Prisoners' Political Action Committee Floundering
- NH Supreme Court Overturns Prisoner Voting Rights, by Ronald Young
- Habeas Hints: Statute of Limitations, by Kent Russell
- Ohio Prison Food Contract Sparks Controversy
- First Federal Execution Postponed, by Bill Dunne
- Nassau Jail Guards Convicted, Sentenced for Fatal Beating
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- California Private Prison Riot, by Willie Wisely
- $50,000 to Settle CA Jail Beating Suit
- Crack in the Federal Scheme: The October Rebellion of 1995, by Bill Dunne
- New Jersey Parole Board Chief Resigns
- Escape Costs Oklahoma Private Prison $304,375
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- Administrative Exhaustion Required in Bivens Suits
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- No Administrative Exhaustion Required When AG Won't Give Hearing, by Paul Wright
- Family Wins $12.9 Million Award in Michigan Jail Death Suit, by Ronald Young
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