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Federal Court Rejects California’s Attempt to Terminate Clark Remedial Plan, Grants $2.3 Million in Attorney’s Fees
Loaded on April 15, 2011
by Michael Brodheim
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2011, page 40
by Mike Brodheim
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Disabled Prisoners,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Rehabilitation Act.
Location:
California.
On August 26, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law after conducting a hearing to determine whether it was appropriate to terminate the prospective relief provisions of the Clark Remedial Plan (CRP). The CRP …
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