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PLRA Attorney's Fees Cap Applies to Nonprisoner Intervenors

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News January, 2001, page 22
Filed under: Attorney Fees (PLRA), Mail, Publications/Books, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations, Due Process. Location: Virginia.
The Fourth Circuit has held that a publisher who intervened in a law suit filed by prisoners is subject to the attorney fees cap of the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Virginia state prisoners Donald Hodges and Michael Flores sued Keen Mountain Correctional Center officials claiming that their First Amendment rights ...

 

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