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Dismissal with Prejudice Proper For Financial Misrepresentation

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorneys, Appointment of Counsel. Location: Missouri.

On July 3, 1990, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that
dismissal with prejudice was a proper sanction for filing a false affidavit
of poverty.

Plaintiff Earl Romesburg, a Missouri state prisoner, filed suit against
prison officials for being deliberately indifferent to his medical needs
with regard to ...

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