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Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment of Washington Phone Suit
Loaded on March 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2007, page 38
A Washington appeals court has overturned a lower court's grant of summary judgment to telephone companies in a lawsuit alleging they failed to disclose rates to recipients of prisoner-initiated phone calls as required by state law.
Filed under:
State Law Claims,
Telephone Rates,
Immunity/Liability,
Contractor Liability.
Location:
Washington.
In 2000, Sandy Judd, Zuraya Wright and Tara Herivel filed suit against five phone ...
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