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PLN Obtains $50,000 Settlement in Tennessee Jail Censorship Suit
Loaded on July 28, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2017, page 28
On March 16, 2016, a Tennessee federal district court granted PLN’s motion for a preliminary injunction to protect its Fourteenth Amendment rights from infringement by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office. The county subsequently agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement.
PLN’s complaint, filed in October 2013, sought declaratory and ...
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