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No Pretrial Appeals of Motions to Dismiss
Loaded on July 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2000, page 17
The Eighth circuit court of appeals held that it had no jurisdiction to hear interlocutory appeals on issues other than qualified immunity. The court also held it will review FRCP 60(b) motions for abuses of discretion. Emmit Broadway was a pretrial detainee housed in a jail run by the Arkansas …
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