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Consent Decree Termination Upheld
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1998, page 13
Consent Decree Termination Upheld: In the April, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Hadix v. Johnson , 947 F. Supp. 1100 (ED MI 1997) where a district court struck down 18 U.S.C. § 3626 as unconstitutional. Section 3626 allows for the immediate termination of consent decrees. The court of appeals ...
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