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Texas Court Finds CCA Subject to State’s Public Information Act, Awards Attorney Fees
Loaded on Oct. 10, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2014, page 9
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
PLN Litigation,
Public Records Act.
Location:
Texas.
Texas Court Finds CCA Subject to State’s Public Information Act, Awards Attorney Fees
On September 15, 2014, a Travis County District Court entered a final judgment that found Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, is a “governmental body” for purposes of the Texas Public Information ...
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