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Texas Prisoner's Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2004, page 16
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth. Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's complaint that prison officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to file a grievance.
Filed under:
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Prison Labor,
Guards/Staff,
American Correctional Association.
Location:
Texas.
Robert Hart, 38, is a prisoner at the 2,800-man Albert Hughes State Prison near Gatesville, Texas. In February ...
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