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Unauthenticated Evidence Does Not Support Summary Judgment
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2003, page 26
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Retaliation for Litigating,
Civil Procedure,
Summary Judgment,
Parties,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Prisoner Property,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Texas.
A Texas state court of appeals held that the trial court's granting of TDCJ's motion for summary judgment was error because photocopies of prison rules attached to the motion were not authenticated.
Richard Allen Kleven, II, a Texas state prisoner, sued the Texas Department of Criminal ...
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