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2nd Circuit Applies PLRA to IFP Litigants

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News November, 1996, page 8
Filed under: PLRA, Filing Fees (PLRA), Appeals. Location: New York.
In the July, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) which significantly changed the manner in which indigent prisoner litigants filed civil suits and appeals. In the first circuit court ruling to extensively discuss the PLRA, the second circuit outlined how it ...

 

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