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Illinois Prisoner’s Petition Challenging Disciplinary Report States Cause of Action

Loaded on March 6, 2018 published in Prison Legal News March, 2018, page 38
Filed under: Mandamus, Declaratory Judgment. Location: Illinois.

The Illinois Fourth District Court of Appeals held in July 2017 that a prisoner had stated a cause of action on several claims in his petitions for writ of mandamus, declaratory relief and common law writ of certiorari.

Prisoner Aaron Fillmore received a disciplinary report on December 16, 2014 that ...

 

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