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Ninth Circuit: Incarceration Costs Subject to Bankruptcy Discharge

by Mark Wilson

"Seeking to obtain…revenue by unremittingly pursuing legal actions against disadvantaged individuals--the counterproductive practice at issue here--can have damaging effects on the community," the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently declared. "Not only does such a policy unfairly conscript the poorest members of society ...

 

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