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Dismissal of Prisoner's Suit for Missing Evidentiary Deadline Reversed
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2001, page 29
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed the dismissal of a prisoner's pro se civil rights suit for missing a single pre-trial deadline. Bobby Ray Long, an Indiana state prisoner, filed a civil rights suit in federal court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that prison officials ...
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General),
Civil Procedure,
Discovery,
Sanctions.
Location:
Indiana.
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