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Discrimination Dismissal Reversed
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 18
The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit held that prisoners have a right to be free from racial discrimination and that direct evidence of such discrimination will usually make summary judgment inappropriate. Vincent Harris, a Florida state prisoner, filed suit against several prison guards and the warden contending they ...
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Retaliatory Discipline,
Summary Judgment.
Location:
Florida.
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