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Nebraska Women's Court Access Case Reversed
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1997, page 18
In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Klinger v. Nebraska DOC, 909 F. Supp. 1329 (D NE 1995) which held that women prisoners in Nebraska were denied their right of access to the courts when the prison law library consisted only of "a disorganized pile of books stored ...
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Court Access,
Law Library Access/Adequacy.
Location:
Nebraska.
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