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Guajardo (Texas Prison Mail) Suit Dismissed
Loaded on June 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2003, page 26
by Matthew T. Clarke On September 24, 2002, a federal district court in Texas dismissed the long-standing class-action lawsuit which has governed the mail system in Texas prisons for twenty-five years. The Guajardo suit resulted in three published opinions (432 F.Supp. 1373, 580 F.2d 748, and 568 F.Supp. 1354), and ...
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