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Wisconsin DOC in Contempt for Not Collecting PLRA Fees
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 21
Wisconsin DOC in Contempt For Not Collecting PLRA Fees
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Filing Fees (PLRA),
Contempt (Civil Procedure).
Location:
Wisconsin.
The US District Court (E.D. Wis.) issued an Order to Show Cause to Wisconsin DOC Secretary Jon E. Litscher as to why he should not be held in contempt for declaring he had no further obligation to collect court-ordered filing fees ...
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