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Actual Injury Required in Legal Mail Claim
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1998, page 8
In the December, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Bieregu v. Reno , 59 F.3d 1445 (3rd Cir. 1995) where the third circuit held that a prisoner need not show harm to a court claim when the confidential) of his legal mail was repeatedly violated. After Bieregu was decided the ...
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