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Trial Required in Oklahoma Beating Case
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1998, page 15
The court of appeals for the tenth circuit held that a prisoner's claim for declaratory and injunctive relief are mooted once he is released from incarceration and that questions of fact regarding the application of force by guards precludes summary judgment in their favor. The court also held that the ...
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Civil Procedure,
Summary Judgment,
Injunctions,
Discovery,
Mootness,
Magistrates,
Recusal,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Oklahoma.
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