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Dismissal of Legal Mail and Retaliation Claims Reversed
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 24
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Retaliation for Litigating,
Attorney Client,
Court Access,
Legal Mail.
Location:
South Dakota.
The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reversed the district court's dismissal of claims that prison officials violated a prisoner's right of access to courts and retaliated against him for litigating against them.
William R. Cody, a South Dakota state prisoner, filed suit in ...
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