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Florida PLN Writer Settles Retaliation Suit for $3,000
Loaded on April 15, 2003
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2003, page 5
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Prison Labor,
Sewage,
Vermin.
Location:
Florida.
A 42 U. S. C. § 1983 action filed in a Florida State Court alleging retaliatory job changes for the filing of grievances and lawsuits that challenged the general living conditions at Glades Correctional Institution (GCI) has been settled for $3,000. In June 1993, David Reutter, ...
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