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Ninth Circuit Revives Ad Seg 24-Hour Lighting Claim
Ninth Circuit Revives Ad Seg 24-Hour Lighting Claim
by Mark Wilson
On January 16, 2014, the Ninth CircuitCourt of Appeals reversed a summary judgment order dismissing a prisoner’s claim related to 24-hour lighting in a segregation cell.
While incarcerated at the Airway Heights Corrections Center, Washington prisoner Neil Grenning was ...
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