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Minnesota Cost-of-Confinement Surcharge Upheld
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2002, page 17
The Court of Appeals of Minnesota has upheld a surcharge imposed on prisoners in custody of the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC). The case had been filed as a class-action suit in a Minnesota district court challenging a DOC rule imposing a 10% cost-of-confinement surcharge, subject to specific exemptions, on ...
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
State Law Claims,
Standing,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Administrative Procedures Act (State).
Location:
Minnesota.
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