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Delaware Prisoner's $100,000 Damage Award For Retaliation Upheld
Loaded on March 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2005, page 21
by Michael Rigby
Filed under:
Blind Prisoners,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Conditions of Confinement,
Smoking,
Physical Injury Rule,
Damages.
Location:
Delaware.
A disabled Delaware prisoner's $100,000 damage award for retaliation will stand, a federal district court in Delaware has held.
On August 20, 1999, Roger Atkinson, a blind prisoner with a host of medical problems, sued Delaware prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after he was moved ...
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