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Attorney Fee Award in Smoking Suit Affirmed
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 14
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed an award of $11,299.17 in attorney fees to a prisoner who sued over being exposed to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS, AKA second hand smoke). In the December, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Weaver v. Clarke , 933 F. Supp. 831 ...
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