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TRO Allows Father to Attend Birth; Court Awards Full Attorney Fees
Loaded on April 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2001, page 27
A U.S. District Court in Ohio awarded attorneys' fees and court costs to a state prisoner and her husband who sought and were granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) allowing the husband to attend the birth of their child.
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
OB/GYN,
PLRA,
Attorney Fees (PLRA),
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Marriage,
Mothers in Prison.
Location:
Ohio.
In March 1999, Barbara Turner was confined at the Franklin PreRelease …
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