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Arizona Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment to PLN in Censorship Suit

Loaded on Nov. 6, 2019 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News November, 2019, page 50
Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship. Location: Arizona.

by Matt Clarke

On March 18, 2019, an Arizona federal district court granted in part a motion for summary judgment filed by Prison Legal News in a lawsuit over censorship by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). The court ruled that the ADC had violated PLN’s due process rights ...

 

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