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Preliminary Injunction For Improved TB Testing in Pennsylvania Prisons

Loaded on July 15, 2008

Filed under: Tuberculosis, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Federal Statutory Law, Rehabilitation Act. Location: Pennsylvania.

On September 29, 1992, a federal district court granted Pennsylvania state prisoners a preliminary injunction ordering the implementation of a new policy on the detection and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Pennsylvania state prisons.

This is a, class-action suit brought by prisoners at 13 of Pennsylvania’s state prisons in ...

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