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Book Review: Inmate Litigation
Loaded on May 15, 2000
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 16
by Assistant Professor Margo Schlanger, Reprinted (soft back)
Filed under:
Reviews,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Court Access,
Damages.
Location:
United States of America.
from the Harvard Law Review, Vol. 116, No.6, April 2003; 151 pp.
Review by John E. Dannenberg
Inmate Litigation is a scholarly analysis on the effectiveness of prisoner civil rights litigation filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 both before and after the ...
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