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No Service on US Required for Bivens Claim in Work Injury Suit
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 26
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that plaintiffs suing federal officials solely in their individual capacities do not need to serve the complaint on the United States. John Vaccaro is a federal prisoner with a congenital spine deformity. Despite knowledge of his disability, prison officials ordered him ...
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Work,
Inability to Work,
Workplace Injury,
Cardiovascular,
Skeletal Injury,
Service.
Location:
Nevada.
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