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Order for Attorney Not to Contact Class Members Void
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2002, page 27
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated an order by a district court for ACLU National Prison Project (NPP) lawyers not to contact class members in a suit brought by Mississippi state prisoners. The Fifth Circuit also ordered substitution of counsel and vacated an order denying attorneys' fees. This ...
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