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Sixth Circuit Rules PLRA 150% Fee Cap Constitutional
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2002, page 10
by Matthew T. Clarke The Sixth Circuit court of appeals has held that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2), the section of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which limits losing civil rights defendants' liability to 150% of the damage award, did not violate the Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendment.
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